Anybody know Paris, well? (dangerous, people, pay, work) - City-Data Forum

Dedalus · 02-08-2007, 05:57 PM

I wanted in the worst way to visit the site of Lavoisier's laboratory. He invented chemistry, which is what I do.

I had an idea that it was in a building called La Petit Armoire. I went around there, but it was still an active French military building and I didn't want to get jacked up by Les Flics...

pouemes · 02-09-2007, 02:09 AM

Hello Dedalus,

i am french and lived a few years in paris, could you tell me exactly what you want

Here A Reconstruction of Lavoisier's Laboratory Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris, 292 rue Saint-Martin, Paris

Dedalus · 02-09-2007, 10:14 AM

No, I mean the actual site of his laboratory. There were several, I know, but one of them was in Paris - the one where he burned the diamond to show that it was carbon.

I would have to look at a map to tell you where I was - it was on one of the islands in the Seine River. La Petit Armoire was the name of the building, I believe. I was going by a map in my book about Lavoisier, but it was not very good and I could have easily been mistaken.

Merci beaucoup!

Southside Shrek · 02-09-2007, 09:50 PM

Dedalus
I'll check and let you know. the poor guy lost his head during the Revolution.

pouemes · 02-10-2007, 02:41 AM

Hello Dedalus,

Lavoisier laboratory was laboratoire de l'arsenal

l'arsenal de paris was 3 rue de sully and perhaps around (rue de l'arsenal)

http://marais.evous.fr/marais/rues/quartier-arsenal/quartier-de-l-arsenal.htm (broken link)

http://maps.google.fr/maps?f=q&hl=fr...m=1&iwloc=cent

as you can see, its just beside l'ile saint louis

i found nothing about La petite armoire

*** but was is your exact question: the exact adress of lavoisier laboratory?

Southside Shrek · 02-10-2007, 06:23 PM

LAVOISIER'S LAB WAS IN THE GRAND ARCENAL (ARSENAL) a 1730 map

see rue de l arsenal in the middle

http://maps.google.fr/maps?q=Paris&h...21243&t=h&om=1

Southside Shrek · 02-10-2007, 07:38 PM

the arsenal area was an old powder factory disused because too dangerous since 1600, lavoisier worked in these buildings. he had worked with a member of the Dupont de Nemours family. it was demolished except one house which is now a library. Dupont fled to america, Lavoisier did not and was beheaded in 1794 because he was also a tax collector for the king ( to pay the war in america and the luxuries you see in the movie Marie Antoinette ! ). so i believe that the lab no longer exists, but there is a lavoisier museum at le conservatoire des arts et metiers CNAM? A TECHNICAL SCHOOL FOR ADULTS.

Southside Shrek · 02-11-2007, 08:16 AM

Dedalus,
The remaining building of the arsenal is a public library unchanged since the eighteen century.

I believe that Lavoisier worked in another house which was demolished.

I believe I located where his lab was. it was at the corner of boulevard Bourdon and rue Bassompierre.

Plus loin, à l’angle de la rue Bassompierre, (maréchal de France 1579-1646 de l’époque du roi Henri IV)) dans un décrochement, une plaque rappelle qu’«ici se trouvait L’Hôtel de la régie des poudres où travailla et habita de 1776 à 1792 Antoine François Lavoisier, régisseur des poudres et salpêtres qui y installa son laboratoire de chimie. »

Southside Shrek · 02-12-2007, 07:28 AM

The French said they were sorry not long after they killed Lavoisier because he was an innocent man. Do you have any idea what it’s like to be guillotined when you’re innocent?

There is a commemorative plate on the police building where Lavoisier’s old home and laboratory once stood in the Arsenal section of Paris.

pouemes · 02-14-2007, 02:36 AM

Hello Southside Shrek

at the revolution, they kill him because he belong to "fermier généraux" corporation
fremier generaux were people who collect money.... the advantage for government was to fix money to collect... fermier generaux were people with great privileges. they give to goverment what he fix and keep the exedent for them... they were very rich.

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Originally Posted by Southside Shrek

The French said they were sorry not long after they killed Lavoisier because he was an innocent man. Do you have any idea what it’s like to be guillotined when you’re innocent?

In revolution time, people with great privilege were considered guilty. In there maner to see things, he was guilty. To be innocent is not to be guilty about accusation.

i just want to mean he was guilty about accusation... but of course it his death was a great disaster.