Somebody thought he was a revenuer?
My thought as well.
Don’t forget that LaVoisier was well on his way to identifying the periodic table when he was enlisted to collect taxes for the French government to escape penury; he was a very early example of the efficiency of the newly perfected guillotine for his troubles.
This is so obvious, I can't believe it's not more widely known. We must both be from the sticks!
That’s almost always the case in the part of the country identified as Kentucky, West Virginia, Western Virginia, Western North Carolina, Western South Carolina, and some other stuff, oh, yeah, Tennessee and part of Georgia.