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GUIMET, JEAN BAPTISTE

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GUIMET, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE . (1795-1871), See also:French See also:industrial chemist, was See also:born at See also:Voiron on the loth of See also:July 1795. He studied at the tcole Polytechnique in See also:Paris, and in 1817 entered the See also:Administration See also:des Poudres et Salpetres. In 1828 he was awarded the See also:prize offered by the Societe d'Encouragement pour 1'Industrie Nationale for a See also:process of making artificial See also:ultramarine with all the properties of the substance prepared from lapis lazuli; and six years later he resigned his See also:official position in See also:order to devote himself to the commercial See also:production of that material, a factory for which he established at Fleurieux sur See also:Saone. He died on the 8th of See also:April 1871. His son EMILE See also:ETIENNE GUIMET, born at See also:Lyons on the 26th of See also:June 1836, succeeded him in the direction of the factory, and founded the Musee Guimet, which was first located at Lyons in 1879 and was handed over to the See also:state and transferred to Paris in 1885. Devoted to travel, he was in 1876 commissioned by the See also:minister of public instruction to study the religions of the Far See also:East, and the museum contains many of the fruits of this expedition, including a See also:fine collection of See also:Japanese and See also:Chinese See also:porcelain and many See also:objects See also:relating not merely to the religions of the East but also to those of See also:Ancient See also:Egypt, See also:Greece and See also:Rome. He wrote Lettres sur l'Algerie (1877) and Promenades japonaises (1880), and also some musical compositions, including a See also:grand See also:opera, Tai-Tsoung (1894).

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