^9^ PauIidr^-^Darcst 



DEATHS. 



Lately at Nlfmes, the place of his birth, the ex-jefuit 

 jpaulian, author of feveral works on the mathematics, at the 

 age of 80. He was born of a proteftant family-, and had 

 iievcr been ill in the courfe of his life. His works are : D'tc- 

 itonnawi^ (Id Phjjique, which went through feven editions in 

 liine years, anil which wAs long the only one ufed in the public 

 fchools of France : it is a compilation not deftitute of merits 

 though inferior to that (if Briflbn. o,. Traiie de Paiix; entre 

 Ddfeartes et iVt?w/07z> 3 vol. 3. Comment aire fur La Caille 

 i)i JJ HofpiiaL 4. Le verttahle Syjleme de la 'Nature opfofe 

 0^1 faux Syfieme de ia Nature, 5. ha Vhyftque mife a la 

 Portee de t^ut leMoTide : two volumes only of this work were 

 printed. 6. he DiSionnatre Phtlofopho-Theologique. This 

 work, deftintid for the defence of the Chriftian religion, 

 brought upon the author the hatred and farcafms of Voltaire. 

 Father Paulian was a man of a mild dif|X)fition : during the 

 revolution he always behaved with great circumfpe£lion in 

 the exercifti of the priefthood, to which he devoted himfelf. 

 He was a member of the academies of Nifmes and Lyons, 

 He has left fome unpubliflied works among them : Me^noirc 

 fur U Pauls des Montag-nes, and one on Monfters. 



•On the night between the I2th and i3th of February, at 

 the age of 78, in confequence of a violent pain and fpafms in 

 his ftomach, which feem to have been the confequence of a 

 gouty metaftafis, the celebrated French chcmiil Darcet, a 

 learned phyfician, member of the National Inflitute and 

 feveral other Societies, and profelfor of chemiftry in tlie 

 College de France. Darcet diftinguiflied himfelf by various 

 iifefui labours and refcarches : experiments on earths and the 

 manufa^ure of pottery and porcelain, which he greatly con- 

 tributed to improve in France ; refearches refpe6ling the 

 a6lion of fire, long continued and equally maintained ; on 

 the conftruftion and combuftion of the diamond ] the ana- 

 lyfis of animal matters, feveral miheral waters, and a great 

 many ores. 



