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ACCORDING to the July 1943 issue of the French monthly philatelic review, L'Echangiste Universel, a copy of which has just reached Great Britain, a 4-franc postage stamp is being issued in commemoration of Lavoisier, the centenary of whose birth occurred on August 26, 1943 (see NATUBE, Aug. 21, 1943, p. 207). Incidental reference is made to the removal "depuis un an"of the bronze statue of Lavoisier which stood at the northend of the Madeleine, not far from his town house (now rebuilt), 17 Boulevard de la Madeleine. L'Echangiste Universel appears to have no doubt about the fate of this superb monument—the work of Barrias—for its removal is attributed, with tactful obliquity, to the "service de la récupération des métaux", and the comment is added: "Pauvre Lavoisier connut à deux réprises, les vicissitudes de l'exécution capitale".
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Lavoisier Statue in Paris. Nature 153, 311 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153311a0
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