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大卫 Part05

Here are two of those good eggs, rich, smart and affable. Mr and Mrs Charming, Antoine and Marie-Anne Lavoisier.

He is a famous experimental chemist.

That flask on the floor is for measuring gases.

Marie-Anne, who'd married him at 13, was more than a wife.

That casual hand on his shoulder tells us she was a true partner, translating articles from English for him, designing illustrations for his books.

He's filthy rich, but he does have a social conscience.

A lot of his money has been put into draining swamps to eradicate malaria, that sort of thing.

To look at the portrait, you'd think David has captured a vision of the kind of people who ought to be governing France, humane, affectionate and modern.

Well, for 7,000 livres, he wasn't even going to hint at the other Lavoisier, the one who made money collecting taxes with the help of a private army.

No, David took his fee, but when the time came for him to show the painting at the Louvre, he ended up withdrawing it. But then he would, wouldn't he?

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