It took but an instant to cut off that head, and a hundred years may not suffice to produce another like it.
Il ne faut qu'un instant pour couper cette tête, et cent ans ne suffiront peut-être pas pour en reproduire une semblable.

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Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist born in 1743 who discovered the law of conservation of mass, named oxygen, and demolished phlogiston theory. He is called the father of modern chemistry. Executed during the French Revolution.
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