Lavoisier, ANTON

LAURENT, 1743-1794. French chemist, Academician 1768; Farmer-gen. 1769. His earliest chemical work was to prove that water could not be transformed into earth. He recognized and insisted upon the value of the bal IMG:content-1034.png:[graphic] IMG:content-1035.png:[graphic] Lausanne, from the English Church. institutions and Gothic cathedral, begun in the 10th century and completed in the 13th. Voltaire Haller, and Gibbon resided here. Pop., 1893, 35,823.