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