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COMTE DE ANTOINE FRANCOIS FOURCROY (1...

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 751 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COMTE DE See also:ANTOINE See also:FRANCOIS See also:FOURCROY (1755-1809)  , See also:French chemist, the son of an See also:apothecary in the See also:household of the See also:duke of See also:Orleans, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the 15th of See also:June 1755 . He took up medical studies by the See also:advice of the anatomist See also:Felix Vicq d'Azyr (1748-1794), and after many difficulties caused by lack of means finally in 178o obtained his See also:doctor's diploma . His See also:attention was specially turned to See also:chemistry by J . B . M . Bucquet (1746-1780), the See also:professor of chemistry at the Medical School of Paris, and in 1784 he was chosen to succeed P . J . Macquer (1718-1784) as lecturer in chemistry at the See also:college of the Jardin du Roi, where his lectures attained See also:great popularity .

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