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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 221 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BENJAMIN See also:NICOLAS See also:MARIE See also:APPERT (1797-1847)  , See also:French philanthropist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the loth of See also:September 1797 . While a See also:young See also:man he introduced a See also:system of mutual instruction into the regimental See also:schools of the See also:department of the See also:Nord . The success which it obtained induced him to publish a See also:Manual setting forth his system . While engaged in teaching prisoners at Montaigu, he See also:fell under the suspicion of having connived at the See also:escape of two of them, and was thrown into the See also:prison of La Force . On his See also:release he resolved to devote the See also:rest of his See also:life to bettering the See also:condition of those whose See also:lot he had for a See also:time shared, and he travelled much over See also:Europe for the purpose of studying the various systems of prison discipline, and wrote several books on the subject . After the revolution of 183o he became secretary to See also:Queen See also:Marie Amelie, and organized the See also:measures taken for the See also:relief of the needy . He was decorated with the See also:Legion of See also:Honour in 1835 . His See also:brother, See also:FRANCOIS See also:APPERT (d . 1840), was the inventor of the method of preserving See also:food by enclosing it in hermetically sealed tins; he See also:left a See also:work entitled See also:Art de conserver See also:les substances animales et vt g6lables .

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