Claudine Picadert

Claudine Piccardet was a specialist in translating chemistry and mineralogy texts. Her work in disseminating chemistry in France gained international recognition for the Young Academy. She faced difficulties, but her social position and connections helped her enter scientific and high society circles. Her greatest challenge was the death of her only son. Overall, she was a brilliant woman who made it possible for France to access scientific advances from the rest of Europe. Claudine Piccardet. She specialized at the Academy of the Young, in the translation of texts in the fields of chemistry and mineralogy, with Antoine Lavoisier. She was born in 1735 and died in 1820. One of her great contributions was the dissemination of chemistry in France, allowing the reading of the most important chemistry and mineralogy texts in that time in Europe. Thanks to this work, the Young Academy achieved international recognition and a privilege placed on the map of European science. Her work focuses on carving out extensive translations of scientific literature from Swedish, English, German and Italian into French and translating both books and a large number of pages of scientific publications into reviews. Talking about her difficulties, she always had a good social position since she was the daughter of a royal notary. Furthermore, she was able to easily enter the scientific and high society environment. The greatest difficulty she had to face was the death of her only son. Our personal opinion about her is that she was a brilliant woman and an example to follow. Thanks to her, the scientific advances of the rest of Europe could be known in all France.