Pierre Adet

Pierre Adet
Pierre Adet
	Pierre Auguste Adet
Born	17 May 1763; Nevers
Died	19 March 1834 (aged 70)
Nationality	French

Pierre-Auguste, chevalier Adet (17 May 1763 Nevers – 19 March 1834 Paris) was a French scientist, politician, and diplomat.

He worked with Lavoisier on a new chemical notation system, and was secretary to the scientific periodical Annales de chimie, founded in 1789. He proved that glacial acetic acid and vinegar acetic acid were the same substance.^[1]

In 1796, Adet was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.^[2]

He was secretary to the Minister of the Navy and the Colonies, Jean Dalbarade. He was commissioner to Saint-Domingue. He later became French ambassador to the United States, He sent Georges-Henri-Victor Collot on a reconnaissance of the Ohio River, and Mississippi River.^[3]^[4]

In 1803, he was Prefect of the Nièvre département. In 1809, he was a member of the Corps législatif.

References

^ "Acetic Acid".
^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
^ Tom Eblen (2017-03-19). "Kentucky invasion? Rare spy map shows French plans for frontier America". Kentucky Herald-Leader. Maysville, Kentucky. Retrieved 2019-09-29. In 1796, Pierre-Auguste Adet, the French ambassador to the United States, assigned Collot, an expert mapmaker and former governor of Guadeloupe, to make a frontier reconnaissance mission to assess whether a land-grab might be possible.
^ Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805 (2014). "American Journeys: Collot Expedition of 1796". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 17 October 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)