Une mythologie révolutionnaire dans la chimie française / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent.
Abstract:
"The French chemists of the 19th century insisted that the 'rupture lavoisienne' had marked the advent of a new world. In their view Lavoisier not only overthrew the theory of phlogiston, he also established the science of chemistry ... By coincidence, the "Traité élémentaire" appeared in 1789, Year One in the calendar of modern chemistry and the year of the French Revolution. Because of this conjunction, Lavoisier easily became a symbol of France's revolutionary spirit."
Annals of science Vol. 40 (1983), p. 189-196