WI: Antoine Lavoisier escapes execution

Antoine Lavoisier was a French nobleman who had a major influence on the development of chemistry and biology. Unfortunately, he perished in 1794, at the height of the French Revolution he was accused of selling adulterated tobacco and was executed.

How he escapes execution would matter, seeing how revolutionary France tried to kill him, where would he go to? What if he left for Britain? The United States?

(Man, it's been a while since I posted a thread.)
 
Antoine Lavoisier was a French nobleman who had a major influence on the development of chemistry and biology. Unfortunately, he perished in 1794, at the height of the French Revolution he was accused of selling adulterated tobacco and was executed.

How he escapes execution would matter, seeing how revolutionary France tried to kill him, where would he go to? What if he left for Britain? The United States?

(Man, it's been a while since I posted a thread.)

Lavoisier was a right-wing revolutionnary. He was for the Revolution, but in a very moderate way, a la Lafayette or Baras or Talleyrand. If he escapes his sentence, he would probably go into exile in the US, with his friend DuPont. Like Talleyrand, he would come back to France after Robespierre's fall, in 1794 or 1795. After being a moderately successful politician in 1796-1799, he would work just fine with Napoléon, even if he would not support his economical views.
 
The fact is, he was also a scientist, heavily involved with early electricity and the chemistry of oxygen. He might have made discoveries later credited to Michael Faraday. Young Faraday would have enjoyed a "head start" so Lavoisier could have had a significant effect on the push of technology forward, and could have accelerated the industrial revolution.
 
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