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Much of this material is preserved at the Archives Marcet, Fondation Guy de Pourtalès, Etoy, Switzerland (hereafter AM/FGP). I am grateful to Yvonne de Pourtalès for facilitating my access to it.
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See the claim made in L. Pearce Williams, Michael Faraday: A Biography, London, 1965, 19-20. Throughout his life Faraday acknowledged Marcet's influence. For instance, responding to her request for a ticket to attend his lecture in May 1846, Farady wrote, 'I do not send you a ticket because I wish you to understand that on mentioning your name You & a friend with you shall always pass here. I so have given order.' Cited in F. A. J. L. James (ed.), The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, 3 vols., London, 1996, i, 509.
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See the claim made in L. Pearce Williams, Michael Faraday: A Biography, London, 1965, 19-20. Throughout his life Faraday acknowledged Marcet's influence. For instance, responding to her request for a ticket to attend his lecture in May 1846, Farady wrote, 'I do not send you a ticket because I wish you to understand that on mentioning your name You & a friend with you shall always pass here. I so have given order.' Cited in F. A. J. L. James (ed.), The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, 3 vols., London, 1996, i, 509.
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Prevost taught, at different moments, belles-lettres, moral philosophy and natural philosophy at the Academy. Known today primarily for his work in heat and magnetism, he played an important role in transmitting English culture to a francophone public: he translated the works of Hugh Blair, Thomas Malthus and Dugald Stewart. He corresponded extensively with the latter two.
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The following account of the Royal Institution relies on Berman, op. cit. (19). More recent accounts have criticized the excessive social determinism, arguing for greater attention to individual qualities of certain key scientists. See, for instance, D. Knight, Humphry Davy: Science and Power, Oxford, 1992, which calls attention to the 'romantic' quest for power in Davy's scientific practice, thereby questioning Berman's emphasis on utilitarian social control. See also S. Forgan, 'Faraday - from servant to savant: the institutional context' in Faraday Rediscovered: Essays on the Life and Work of Michael Faraday, 1791-1867 (ed. D. Gooding and F. A. J. L. James), Basingstoke, 1985, 51-69. It argues that by allowing him to bifurcate from strictly utilitarian practices both in his lectures and in his 'disinterested' research, the Institute provided a privileged setting for Faraday's scientific interests.
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In what follows, I limit my examples to Geneva-born men who had close ties with Alexandre's family. I do so because the particularity of Geneva's political and intellectual elite allows me to highlight the question of authority in the Napoleonic era. These examples could be multiplied by mentioning Dr Edward Jenner, promoter of the smallpox vaccine (see Miller, op. cit. (48), 87) and Jacob Berzelius, the Swedish chemist (see H. G. Söderbaum (ed.), Jac. Berzelius Bref Correspondance entre Berzelius et Alexandre Marcel (1812-1822), 3 vols., Upsala, 1913, iii, 15). J. Crellin, 'Mrs Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry', Journal of Chemical Education (1979), 56, 459-60 also mentions the help that Marcet received from her husband's British colleagues. Alexandre Marcet's private notebooks provide further names. They also indicate that his wife often attended dinners with members of the exclusive Chemical Society. See AM/FGP, AMN # 4, entry for 12 January 1806. On the Chemical Society, which counted Humphry Davy amongst its highly select adherents, see G. Averly, 'The "social chemists": English chemical societies in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century', Ambix (1986), 33, 99-128.
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