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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier |
 | | A farcical trial speedily followed, in which he was charged with "incivism" in that he had damaged public health by adding water to tobacco. |
 | | He and his companions, amongst them Jacques Alexis Paulze, his father-in-law, were condemned to death. |
 | | THORPE in Contempory Review, Antonine Laurent Lavoisier (Dec., 1890); GRIMAUX, Lavoisier 1743-1794 (Paris, 1888); THORPE, Priestly, Cavendish, Lavoisier and La Revolution Chimique in Brit. |
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