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MADAME LAVOISIER AND THE OTHERS: WOMEN IN MARIE-ANNE PAULZE-LAVOISIER'S NETWORK (1771-1836).
- Source :
- Notes & Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science; May2023, Vol. 77 Issue 2, p283-302, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Known as a translator and illustrator of chemical texts, Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier (1758-1836) has been often represented as the associate of male savants and especially of her husband, the French chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. This article explores her biography from a different angle and focuses on her trajectories as a secrétaire; namely, someone whose main charge was to store and exchange information by means of writing. The article investigates the presence of women in Paulze-Lavoisier's network before and after Lavoisier's death in 1794. First, it shows that her work as a secrétaire combined a wide set of writing practices with domestic sociability. Then, it examines how other women contributed to her collaboration with Lavoisier. Finally, it analyses how these relationships changed in the post-revolutionary and Napoleonic era, when Paulze-Lavoisier's role as a secrétaire took on a new meaning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- POST-apartheid era
SOCIABILITY
INFORMATION sharing
CHEMISTS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00359149
- Volume :
- 77
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Notes & Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 164574569
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2021.0074