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 Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences |
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journal |
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bibliographic reference |
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Inauguration du monument érigé à Lavoisier par une souscription internationale sous le patronage de l'Académie des Sciences le 27 juillet I900. Discours prononcé par M. Berthelot |
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A separate offprint of this paper exists. |
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Statue de la Madeleine |
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sculpture |
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h 190 |
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portrait |
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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier 1743-1794. Fondateur de la chimie moderne |
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Lavoisier standing and pointing the way. On his left side he is holding a glass jar from his pneumatic apparatus coupled with an assay balance. Two bas-reliefs decorated the side of pedestal. From the very beginning the artistic quality of Barrias’ sculpture was criticized and it often inspired more irony than consideration. A contemporary commentator in fact remarked “qu’on le représente [Lavoisier] portant sa tête sous le bras”. Others thought that Barrias simply took Condorcet as a model (the statue in Quai de Conti). The statue was erected in Place de la Madeleine (Paris) in 1900 and it was destroyed by the Nazi in 1943 |
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