Indeed the Revolution was "a grand time for enthusiastic young men," while people in general lived their ordinary lives.

There is little doubt, then, that the savants, except the few who were occupied by their duties as members of the _Convention Nationale_, worked away quietly at their specialties, each in his own study or laboratory or lecture-room.
[33] Bern.Germ.Etienne, Comte de Lacepede, born in 1756, died in 1825, was elected professor of the zooelogy of "quadrupedes ovipares, reptiles, et poissons," January 12, 1795 (Records of the Museum).

He was the author of works on amphibia, reptiles, and mammals, forming continuations of Buffon's _Histoire Naturelle_.

He also published _Histoire Naturelle des Poissons_ (1798-1803), _Histoire des Cetaces_ (1804), and _Histoire Naturelle de l'Homme_ (1827), _Les Ages de la Nature et Histoire de l'Espece Humaine_, tome 2, 1830.
[34] Perrier, _l.

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