Du berthollimètre de Descroizilles à la sonde de Castaing
The author describes French discoveries from the end of the eighteenth century to the present time. He summarizes the great discoveries of: Descroizilles, GayLussac, Proust, Rouelle, Cadet, Gaulthier de Claubry, Debassyns, Courtois, Balard, Barreswil, Lambert, Lavoisier, Willm and Henriot, Lassaigne, JeanBaptiste Dumas, Margueritte, Laurent, Soleil, Dubosc, Florence, Berthelot, Pasteur, Janssen, Lamy, Charpentier, Sainte-Claire Deville, Villiers, Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Baubigny, Moissan, Lebeau, Pelouze, Fremy, Leidie and Quennessen, Le Chatelier, Saladin, Gabriel Bertrand, Delepine, Moureu and LePape, Fleuret, Guichard, Chevenard, and Castaing.