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FOURCROY, ANTOINE FRANCOIS, COMTE DE (1755-1809) , French chemist, the son of an apothecary in the household
duke of Orleans, was born at Paris on the 15th of June 1755. He took up medical studies by the advice of the anatomist Felix Vicq d'Azyr (1748-1794), and after many difficulties caused by lack of means finally in 178o obtained his doctor
chemistry by J. B. M. Bucquet (1746-1780), the professor of chemistry at the Medical School of Paris, and in 1784 he was chosen to succeed P. J. Macquer (1718-1784) as lecturer in chemistry at the college of the Jardin du Roi, where his lectures attained great
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