. The Pharmaceutical era. Lhemicai house in hisnative town. His Duval. ^.^^ much before the public about the time of the 1889 exhibition, when he (as Minis-ter of Finances in the Floquet Cabinet), proposed ascheme for the more equitable and just distribution of theburden of taxation. This was outvoted by the was re-elected at the general elections, and in 1893was again Finance Minister for six months; the yearfollowing he left the lower House for the Senate. The name of Senator Poirrierwas mentioned in the jury list of the Chemistry andPharmacy section of the 1900 exhi
. The Pharmaceutical era. Lhemicai house in hisnative town. His Duval. ^.^^ much before the public about the time of the 1889 exhibition, when he (as Minis-ter of Finances in the Floquet Cabinet), proposed ascheme for the more equitable and just distribution of theburden of taxation. This was outvoted by the was re-elected at the general elections, and in 1893was again Finance Minister for six months; the yearfollowing he left the lower House for the Senate. The name of Senator Poirrierwas mentioned in the jury list of the Chemistry andPharmacy section of the 1900 exhibition, while SenatorLfon Chiris is on the perfumery section jury. The name of M Scheurer-Kestnerwill be familiar to all who have followed the recent agita-tion in France. His connection with the manufacture ofchemicals is of long standing. Born in 1833, when Mul-house (Alsace) was French soil, he studied chemistryat Paris, and returning home, married the daughter ofM. Kestner, and acted as manager in the extensive chemi-. cal works owned by his father-in-law at Thann, at an early age he had courage enough to asserthis convictions, and was sentenced in 18G2 by the FrenchImperial authorities to four months imprisonment or a$400 fine for ?propagating Republican ideas. In thesame year he published a work on the principles of thechemical theory of types as applied to organic combi-nations. In 18G8 the Mulhouse Chemical Society awardeahim a gold medal for an essay on Combustion. The death of his father-in-law in 1870, left the chemicalbusiness in his hands, and he still retains a large interestin this undertaking. During the war he was appointeddirector of the Government pyrotechnic establishment atCette, on the Mediterranean. Elected in 1871 Deputy for the Haut-Rhin, he waspractically the last Alsatian representative that sat in aFrench Parliament. At Bordeaux he naturally votedagainst the terms of peace which ceded his native prov-ince to the German Empire,and resigned
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