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STEPS BACKWARD. “Wine makers and distillers found little of use in Lavoisier’s work, and instead turned to another chemist of his generation, who was only partially converted to Lavoisier’s cause, the unapologetic vitalist Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756-1832). Chaptal had replaced Lavoisier at the Gunpowder Administration after the latter’s beheading, and then served as Napoleon’s Minister of the Interior. He had also, in these years, published scientific accounts of both wine making and distilling that transformed both industries.”

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00026980.2020.1867786

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