Beaufort
Beaufort An English family descended from three illegitimate sons of John of GAUNT (fourth son of Edward III) and Katherine Swynford. The children were legitimated in 1407 but with the exclusion of any claim to the crown. Their father and their half-brother
HENRY IV made them powerful and wealthy:
Thomas (died 1426) became Duke of Exeter,
John (
c.1371–1410) was made Lord High Admiral and Earl of Somerset, and
Henry (died 1447) was Bishop of Winchester and later a cardinal. As a court politician he led the so-called constitutional party against Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. The
YORKISTS had no love for the Beauforts, and by 1471 all three of the Earl of Somerset's grandsons had been killed in battle or executed. The male line thus ended, but their niece Margaret Beaufort (1443–1509), daughter of John, Duke of Somerset, who married Edmund
TUDOR, enjoyed a life of charity and patronage of learning after her son became king as
HENRY VII.
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The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830
Magazine article from: Business History Review; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...July 1794). Instead, government officials like Jean-Antoine Chaptal sought to take the lead in promoting technological...theory and practice to farther a liberal agenda" made Chaptal "the father of the nineteenth-century French economy...
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Claude Louis Berthollet: A Great Chemist in +he french Tradition.
Magazine article from: Canadian Chemical News; 11/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...collaborated scientificallywith the celebrated chemist Antoine Laurentde Lavoisier (1743-1794). In 1785, he...industries. Together with fellow chemist and compatriot Jean Antoine Chaptal (1756-1832), who worked mainly on technical problems...
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Suspect under investigation in series of Paris rapes of minors
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 3/13/2002; ; 387 words
; ...took place between September 2000 and March 20002, Prosecutor Jean-Pierre Dintilhac said in a statement. However, he denied...recent cases, on March 5, a man managed to get inside the Chaptal middle school in Paris' exclusive 8th district and raped an...
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Jean Antoine Chaptal
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jean Antoine Chaptal , 1756-1832, French chemist, industrialist, and statesman. He...introduced far-reaching reforms in medicine, industry, and public works. Chaptal's writings pioneered in the application of chemical principles to...
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Chaptal, Jean Antoine
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Chaptal, Jean Antoine ( b . Nojaret, Loz è re, France, 5 June 1756; d . Paris, France, 30 July 1832), applied chemistry . Chaptal ’ s parents, Antoine Chaptal and Fran ç oise Brunel, were small landowners...
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Nitrogen
Book article from: Chemistry: Foundations and Applications
...Cavendish independently discovered the element in 1772. Nitrogen received its name in 1790 from French chemist Jean-Antoine Chaptal, who realized that it was present in nitrate (NO3−) and nitric acid (HNO3). Nitrogen is the most...
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Nitrogen (revised)
Book article from: Chemical Elements: From Carbon to Krypton
...about the name of this new element for some time. Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-94), a French chemist...nitrogen was first suggested in 1790 by French chemist Jean Antoine Claude Chaptal (1756-1832). This name made sense to chemists...
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Broussonet (or Broussonnet or Broussounet), Pierre-Auguste-Marie
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...professor at the medical school, was a relative, as was Jean Chaptal, who subsequently became minister of the interior...avenue leading to the study of the natural sciences. Antoine Gouan, a convinced Linnaean, taught at the medical...
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