BERTHELOT 



1827-1907 



TN 1827 the Government of Charles X. sent a fleet to 

 the coast of Morea to join the English in putting 

 a stop to the barbarous warfare between the Greeks and 

 the Turks. De Rigny and Codrington, the two admirals, 

 acted in concert in a battle fought in the Bay of Navarino, 

 in which the Turkish fleet was destroyed. It will be 

 remembered that Lord Byron, the poet, fought in this 

 battle, and had the great pleasure of seeing Greece made 

 an independent state. In the same year Pierre Eugene 

 Marcellin Berthelot was born on 25th October 1827, at 

 Paris, and for half a century was a most famous chemist, 

 writer, and philosopher. He was the son of a distinguished 

 physician, Dr Jacques Martin Berthelot, and received his 

 education at the Lyce"e Henri IV. In early life he won 

 an important prize at an open competition for philosophy, 

 and then devoted himself to scientific studies, beginning 

 with investigations on acids and fermentation. In 1851, 

 at the age of twenty-four, he entered the College de 

 France, as pr^parateur of the lectures on chemistry 



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