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Antoine Lavoisier (1794) – the "Father of Modern Chemistry"; guillotined for treason; Joseph Le Bon (1794) – guillotined for abuse of power; Antoine-François Momoro (1794) – guillotined as an Hébertist; Philippe de Noailles (1794) – guillotined in Paris; Anne de Noailles (1794) – guillotined in Paris
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (/ l ə ˈ v w ɑː z i eɪ / lə-VWAH-zee-ay; [1] [2] [3] French: [ɑ̃twan lɔʁɑ̃ də lavwazje]; 26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794), [4] also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille; Jean Joseph de Laborde, Marquis of Laborde; Guillaume Lamberty; Antoine-Adrien Lamourette; Arnaud II de La Porte; Marc David Alba Lasource; Jean-Baptiste de Lavalette; Clément Charles François de Laverdy; Antoine Lavoisier; Joseph Le Bon; Isaac René Guy le Chapelier; Pierre Henri Hélène Marie Lebrun-Tondu
Louis XVI and his family being transferred to the Temple Prison on 13 August 1792. Engraving by Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines, 1792.. Following the attack on the Tuileries Palace during the insurrection of 10 August 1792, King Louis XVI was imprisoned at the Temple Prison in Paris, along with his wife Marie Antoinette, their two children and his younger sister Élisabeth.
She was the sister-in-law of his typographer, Jean-Antoine Corne, and had lent him money and sheltered him on several occasions. Marat only emerged publicly on the 10 August insurrection, when the Tuileries Palace was invaded and the royal family forced to shelter within the Legislative Assembly.
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During the 19th and 20th century, this transformation was credited to the work of the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier (the "father of modern chemistry"). [2] However, recent work on the history of early modern chemistry considers the chemical revolution to consist of gradual changes in chemical theory and practice that emerged over a period of ...
Among them was Antoine Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, whose laboratory had been supported by income from his administration of the Ferme générale. His wife, the chemist Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze , who escaped the guillotine, was herself the daughter of another farmer-general, Jacques Paulze.