Society of Arcueil [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Society of Arcueil
The Society of Arcueil was a circle of French scientists who met regularly on summer weekends between 1806 and 1822 at the country houses of Claude Louis Berthollet and Pierre Simon Laplace at Arcueil, then a village 3 miles south of Paris.
Members.
In 1807, when the first collection of ""Mémoires de Physique et de Chimie de la Société d'Arcueil"" was published, a list of contributing members read:
- Claude Louis Berthollet (1748-1822)
- Pierre Simon Laplace (
cockades, notably the Society for Revolutionary Republican Women, and those who did not. The market women went to the Convention with their problem and petitioned that the Society be abolished. On October 30, 1793, the National Convention decreed that "clubs and popular societies of women, under whatever denomination, are forbidden". The Society of Revolutionary Republican Women was officially dissolved, despite numerous protests by leading figures in the club.
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