Lavoisier Guillotined
May 8, 1794
The father of modern chemistry was executed at fifty - not for science but for having been a tax farmer. 'The Republic has no need of scientists,' the judge reportedly snapped. The mathematician Lagrange mourned: 'It took only a moment to cut off his head, and a hundred years will not suffice to produce its like.'
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.