During the Revolution In June 1791, Lavoisier made a loan of 71,000 livres to Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours to buy a printing works so that du Pont could publish a newspaper, La Correspondance Patriotique. The plan was for this to include both reports of debates in the National Constituent Assembly as well as papers from the Academy of Sciences.Chronicle of the French Revolution,  Longman 1989  p. 216 The revolution quickly disrupted the elder du Pont's first newspaper, but his son E.I. du Pont soon launched Le Republicain and published Lavoisier's latest chemistry texts. Lavoisier also chaired the commission set up to establish a uniform system of weights and measuresCompanion to the French Revolution, John Paxton, Facts on File Publications 1988  p. 120A Cultural History of the French Revolution, Emmet Kennedy  Yale University Press 1989  p. 193 which in March 1791 recommended the adoption of the metric system.Chronicle of the French Revolution,  Longman 1989  p. 204 The new system of weights and measures was adopted by the Convention on 1 August 1793.Chronicle of the French Revolution,  Longman 1989  p. 356 Lavoisier himself was removed from the commission on weights and measures on 23 December 1793, together with mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace and several other members, for political reasons.
During the Revolution In June 1791, Lavoisier made a loan of 71,000 livres to Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours to buy a printing works so that du Pont could publish a newspaper, La Correspondance Patriotique. The plan was for this to include both reports of debates in the National Constituent Assembly as well as papers from the Academy of Sciences.Chronicle of the French Revolution, Jacques Legrand, Longman 1989 , p. 216 The revolution quickly disrupted the elder du Pont's first newspaper, but his son E.I. du Pont soon launched Le Republicain and published Lavoisier's latest chemistry texts. Lavoisier also chaired the commission set up to establish a uniform system of weights and measuresCompanion to the French Revolution, John Paxton, Facts on File Publications 1988 , p. 120A Cultural History of the French Revolution, Emmet Kennedy , Yale University Press 1989 , p. 193 which in March 1791 recommended the adoption of the metric system.Chronicle of the French Revolution, Jacques Legrand, Longman 1989 , p. 204 The new system of weights and measures was adopted by the Convention on 1 August 1793.Chronicle of the French Revolution, Jacques Legrand, Longman 1989 , p. 356 Lavoisier himself was removed from the commission on weights and measures on 23 December 1793, together with mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace and several other members, for political reasons.
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