What was the old regime in French Revolution
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8 MAY 1794: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION GUILLOTINES LAVOISIER.
Antoine Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, among many other achievements determined that "matter can not be created or destroyed," and both identified and gave names to the elements that make up life-giving water. However, he was also a tax administrator in the Old Regime's last years. Come the Revolution and its Reign of Terror, radicals like Jean-Paul Marat denounced anyone who had had that state function as being by definition corrupt, and called for his execution. In one day, Lavoisier was tried, convicted, and guillotined. A year and a half later, after the Reign of Terror had subsided, he was exonerated by the government. A legend grew up subsequently that his judges, in passing sentence, remarked that "the Republic has no need of genius." Research has lately shown, however, that there is no basis for this story. (Below: 1. In 1788, Jacques-Louis David painted Lavoisier with his wife by his side as he worked. 2. By 1794, the artist actively supported the Reign of Terror.)