From the nimble fingers of Patrick Grimont (pgrimont@...) (22/10/2001
2:21 AM) came...

> Lavoisier was not decapitated because he was a scientist. His job was tax
> collector (in the Kindom of France, tax collectors could keep a part of the
> taxes for themselves).

.. as if they no longer do that these days...
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