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May 3, 2024 · Jean Vauquelin de La Fresnaye, sieur (lord) des Yveteaux was a French magistrate, poet, and moralist who was credited with introducing satire to France as a literary genre. Vauquelin studied the humanities at Paris and law at Poitiers and Bourges, later practicing as a magistrate in Caen.
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4 days ago · 18/05/2024. Departing from the church of Saint Malo, come and walk in the footsteps of Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye. Around 6:15pm, visit the church of La Fresnaye and around 6:30pm, discover the Vauquelin towers. Catering available at the Saint-Malo church.
May 12, 2024 · Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin (born May 16, 1763, Saint-André-d’Hébertot, France—died Nov. 14, 1829, Saint-André-d’Hébertot) was a French chemist who discovered the elements chromium (1797) and beryllium (1798). A peasant’s son, Vauquelin went to work in an apothecary shop, where he was befriended by Antoine-François Fourcroy, who made ...
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Apr 30, 2024 · pigment. Louis-Jacques Thenard (born May 4, 1777, La Louptière, Fr.—died June 21, 1857, Paris) was a French chemist, teacher, and author of an influential four-volume text on basic chemical theory and practice (1813–16). A peasant’s son, Thenard endured extreme hardships to gain his scientific education.
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1 day ago · In 1806, French chemists Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin and Pierre Jean Robiquet isolated a compound from asparagus that was subsequently named asparagine, the first amino acid to be discovered. Cystine was discovered in 1810, although its monomer, cysteine, remained undiscovered until 1884.
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5 days ago · In 1560, the aforementioned Jean Nicot brought tobacco to France, where it was initially used and cultivated as an ornamental plant. Very soon, the plant was found to have harmful effects on the human body. 1809 – Vauquelin raises the alarm about the volatile properties of tobacco’s toxic agent,
