WI: Antoine Lavoisier escapes The Terror

JJohnson

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What if Antoine Lavoisier escaped The Terror? I know he was a famous chemist, but what would his likely contribution have been had he lived? Where would he go?

The relation is, I'm going to have him escape to the US state of Quebec in my timeline, but I'm unsure of what he'd do and what effect he'd have on that state. Would he create a Quebec Academy of the Sciences as a prestige scientific body, making French a prestige language in the US? If he described The Terror to the Quebecois, what would their reaction be, and that of the US as a whole? Could that affect the Jeffersonians, possibly turn Quebec to a Federalist state?
 
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