Paris, France:

Folder 2C

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Elements: chromium, beryllium
Location: Paris
Scientist: Lavoisier, Vauquelin

Lavoisier's 3rd home	Street name changes	Compare street names	Closer view of this building	Left windows of previous building
Dates from Lavoisier's time.	Same corner	Banque de France	Banque de France on entire block	"Histoire de Paris" post for the bank
Marquis de La Vrillière is a palace	Bank of France moved into the hotel de Toulouse	Corner of Rue des Petits-Champs and Rue Radziwill	Francois Couperin lived here	Rue des Bons Enfants
South of the location of Lavoisier's	interesting building	Hotel Tubeuf	Deed of Louisiana by France to the Republic of United States of America-1803	Louvre was the site of the Académie des Sciences
Future of Pont des Arts	The "Old Louvre"	Académie des Sciences at the time of Lavoisier was in the southeast corner of the Louvre	Current overhead view of the Louvre	Old Louvre is now known as the Sully Wing
Expanded view of the Old Louvre	Site of the Académie des Sciences	View of the Louvre	Long lines move through rapidly	This is inside the Sully Wing
Terrace of Jardin de l’Infante	South wing of the Louvre	Site of Tschirnhausen lens	Tschirnhausen experiments	Mansion on Boulevard de la Madeleine
1739 area about the Madeleine	Hotel de Chevilly, dated from 1728.	Église de la Madeleine	Monument of Lavoisier	Monument of Lavoisier
A bas-relief adorned the pedestal	Another bas-relief adorned the pedestal	Boulevard de la Madeleine	View westward on Boulevard de la Madeleine	Area has been extensively urbanized
View towards l'Église de la Madeleine	La Place de la Concorde	Southeast view of the Place de la Concorde	View northward, with the obelisk	Statue of Louis XV
Originally named 'Place Louis XV.'	Northward view of the obelisk	Madame Lavoisier moved after death of husband	Boulevard Malesherbes (left-right) and Rue Lavoisier	Closeup of same tobacco shop
View eastward on Rue Lavoisier	Half-way down Rue Lavoisier	Walking eastward of Rue Lavoisier	This is the Chapelle Expiatoire	This is the other (east) side of le Square Louis XVI
Above the door is an inscription	The first home of École Polytechnique	School was first established in 1794	Today's view of the Palais Bourbon	Hotel del Lassay
Second site of the École des Mines	Street Rue de Belle Chasse	Hotel Mouchy	Boulevard Saint-Germain and Rue de la Université	View eastward from this intersection
Previous site of Hotel Mouchy	View down Rue de la Université	View back towards Boulevard Saint-Germain