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F FOURIER

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 751 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FOURIER  . C . M. i5I See also:original investigator . A member of the committees for public instruction and public safety, and later, under See also:Napoleon, director See also:general of instruction, he took a leading See also:part in the See also:establishment of See also:schools for both See also:primary and secondary See also:education, scientific studies being especially provided for . See also:Fourcroy died at See also:Paris on the 16th of See also:December 1809, the very See also:day on which he had been created a See also:count of the See also:French See also:empire . By his conduct as a member of the See also:Convention he has been accused of contributing to the See also:death of See also:Lavoisier . See also:Baron See also:Cuvier in his Eloge historique of Fourcroy repels the See also:charge, but he can scarcely be acquitted of See also:time-serving indifference, if indeed active, though See also:secret, participation be not proved against him . The Royal Society's See also:Catalogue of Scientific Papers enumerates 59 See also:memoirs by Fourcroy himself, and 58 written jointly by him and others, mostly L . N . See also:Vauquelin .

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