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Antoine Lavoisier
1794 - Luxembourg Prison, Paris
Under guard in the Luxembourg Prison, a chemist who transformed science waits to learn whether the Revolution will let him live.
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Antoine Lavoisier executed in revolutionary Paris
May 1794 · Luxembourg Prison, Paris
Paris turns scientific brilliance into revolutionary expendability when public virtue demands a victim.
Lavoisier remains the central life, while Marie Antoinette's Paris sharpens the sense of a city where different kinds of eminence become equally vulnerable.
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Antoine Lavoisier
1794 - Luxembourg Prison, Paris
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Under guard in the Luxembourg Prison, a chemist who transformed science waits to learn whether the Revolution will let him live.