After all, it was Lavoisier who helped Lawrence enter the French Academy of Sciences, but now Madame Du Barry has questioned and impeached Lawrence's academician status, and even set up a bet that Lawrence will almost lose. This is even more...
Lavoisier felt very guilty.
Especially after meeting Lawrence, Lavoisier was even more worried that the powerful Bonaparte in front of him would blame all this on himself. It was his incompetence that led to Bonaparte's death.
You are in such a predicament.
Moreover, in addition to the pressure from Lawrence, Lavoisier also received a lot of looks and contempt within the French Academy of Sciences. His colleagues used this to attack him, and some colleagues who had never dealt with him even threatened to
Lavoisier must also be impeached and expelled from the French Academy of Sciences.
Although Lavoisier did make this deal with Lawrence in order to expand his tax zone, he did see Monsignor Bonaparte's foresight in chemistry during his exchange with Lawrence that day.
Therefore, Lavoisier repeatedly stated that he made the recommendation after having academic exchanges with Monsignor Bonaparte and believing that Lawrence had corresponding profound knowledge.
But this weak statement could only become a laughing stock in the end. No one believed that the twenty-year-old Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Corsica still had the knowledge of natural philosophy to become an academician.
"It seems that I have caused you a lot of trouble, and I need to apologize to you for this." Lawrence said softly.
Hearing that Lawrence apologized to himself instead, Lavoisier stood up in panic and said repeatedly:
"No, no, no, how can I accept your apology? Your Excellency, this is all my problem. If I had been more cautious, I might not have dragged you down and left you with these excuses."
"Please sit down, Mr. Lavoisier." Lawrence smiled and comforted patiently:
"Now that the matter has come to this, there is no point in worrying about the previous behavior. It is time to focus on the academic defense itself... Is there any news from the Louvre?"
Lavoisier nodded, his face a little ugly:
"The Academy Committee has determined the time for the defense, which will be three or four days after the New Year."
"After New Year? Only about two weeks?" Lawrence was not particularly surprised. Although this time was a bit tight, it was enough for him.
"Yes, the committee does not plan to give you too much preparation time. They feel that if you are really capable of passing, it won't matter even if you defend tomorrow." Lavoisier sighed and continued:
"And... I have bad news to tell you. Because His Majesty the King personally sent someone to supervise the entire defense process, the committee's evaluation standards are much higher than normal. If you continue to use the results I submitted,
I'm afraid...it will be very difficult to pass that paper's defense."
Although Lavoisier did hear a lot of enlightening knowledge from Lawrence, he, like most citizens, did not think that Bonaparte could pass that high-standard defense, especially when time was so tight.
, when you have to resubmit an academic paper.
Lavoisier even felt that if such conditions and standards were used to assess academicians of the French Academy of Sciences, more than half of the existing academicians would not be able to pass.
However, after hearing this, Lawrence waved his hands completely uneasily and said without caring:
"Submit a paper again? It doesn't matter. I had this plan in the first place. I have even conceived the outline in the past two days."
"What did you say?" Lavoisier thought he had heard wrong for the first time and said in great surprise:
"Are you going to write an academic paper by yourself, or within two weeks? And use it to participate in the academic defense of the French Academy of Sciences?!"
Not to mention Lawrence, even Lavoisier himself felt that it was impossible for him to write an academic paper of sufficient quality to pass the defense within two weeks, let alone carry out tedious experiments and data collection.
"Of course, I have even designed the experimental device and am entrusting a... er, craftsman to help me build it."
Lawrence looked at Lavoisier's surprised look and said with a smile:
"However, I still need a capable assistant. I wonder if Mr. Lavoisier is willing to...?"
Lavoisier didn't seem to have recovered from this ridiculous idea. He was stunned for a moment and then asked quickly:
"Of course I am willing to provide you with all help, but...please forgive me for asking, what is the object of your research...?"
"It's difficult to explain it to you in just a few words, Mr. Lavoisier." Lawrence thought for a while and said slowly:
Chapter completed!