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Count Berthollet

A famous chemist, native of Savoy, to whom we owe the discovery of the bleaching properties of chlorine, the employment of carbon in purifying water, etc., and many improvements in the manufactures; became a senator and officer of the Legion of honor under Napoleon; attached himself to the Bourbons on their return, and was created a peer (1744-1822).

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