22 BIOGKAPHIES OF SCIENTIFIC MEN 



and during his sojourn in those countries, Napoleon 

 (then master of Europe) dethroned the Pope, annexed 

 Rome, made Bernadotte King of Sweden, incorporated 

 Holland with France, divorced Josephine and married 

 Maria Louisa of Austria, declared war against Russia, 

 retreated from Moscow, but still alert and intrepid. Such 

 were the times in which Cuvier did work of the highest 

 importance. He was made Chevalier de la Legion 

 d'Honneur in 1811, and three years later a Councillor 

 of State, and in 1812 appeared his monumental work, 

 Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles. 



During the nine years' reign of Louis XVIII. he was 

 Chancellor of the University of Paris, and held many 

 State appointments. In 1817 he published Regne Animal 

 distribue d'apres son Organisation, a work which had 

 the greatest influence upon naturalists, and his system 

 became of world-wide fame. 



Cuvier visited London in 1818, and was delighted with 

 the liberties enjoyed by the people in this country, and 

 more than once he alluded to it in his writings. During 

 his sojourn in England Cuvier was made an "immortal" 

 as a member of the Academic Franchise is designated. 

 In 1819 he was created a baron. 



On the death of Louis XVIII., his brother Charles, 

 the Comte d'Artois, ascended the throne as Charles X., 

 and Cuvier took part in the coronation of that monarch, 

 on which occasion he was promoted in the Order of the 



