Pierre jean robiquet biography of william

(b. Rennes, France, 13 January 1780; d. Paris, France, 29 April 1840)

chemistry, pharmacy.

As a youth Robiquct was caught up in the turbulence of Revolutionary France.

Pierre jean robiquet biography of william shakespeare

After serving an apprenticeship and working in pharmacies in Lorient, Rennes, and Paris, he became Fourcroy’s prépareteur in the chemical laboratory shared with Vauquelin on the rue des Bourdonnais in Paris. Here Robiquet had the opportunity to assist the two chemists with their analyses of urinary calculi and to become friends with Vanquelin’s assistant, Thenard.

Conscripted into the army in 1799 as a military pharmacist, he experienced many hardships in the Italian campaign but was able to attend the lectures of Volta on physics and of Scarpa on anatomy while he was stationed in Pavia.

After the French victory at Marengo.

Robiquct was assigned to the military teaching hospital in Rennes in 1801 and several years later to the Val-de-Grâce in Paris, from which he resigned in 1807 to