Louis Lefèvre-Gineau
Louis Lefèvre-Gineau , born with Authe (the Ardennes) the March 7th 1751 and dead the February 3rd 1829, is a Chimiste and Scientifique French.
Of modest origin, a relative of the locality close to Étrépigny will give to this intelligent child rudiments of knowing which will enable him to shine in the studies of Chimie and Physique that it will achieve with Rheims then with Paris.
Become collaborator of Lavoisier, he studies with him the chemical composition of the Eau. Deputy under the Revolution, he is member of the charged commission to define the Metric system and it is him which determines the Masse Kilogram.
Of 1786 with 1823, it occupies the pulpit of mechanics, then of general and experimental physics, with the Collège de France, of which he is administrator of 1800 with 1823. He is elected member of the Academy of Science in 1795. He is made knight of Ainelle under the Empire, in 1808.
In 1825, it builds as a retirement with Étrépigny charming a small castle Néo-gothique. He dies in 1829, hundred years exactly after another famous citizen of this village: the priest Jean Meslier.
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