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Jean-Antoine Chaptal

Jean-Antoine Chaptal, comte de Chanteloup (5 June 1756 – 29 July 1832) was a French chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator and philanthropist.

Chaptal was involved in the early industrialization in France under Napoleon and during the Bourbon Restoration. He was a founder and first president in 1801 of the Society for the Encouragement of National Industry and an organizer of industrial expositions held in Paris in 1801 and subsequent years. He compiled a study surveying the condition and needs of French industry in the early 1800s. Chaptal published practical essays the use of chemistry in a range of applications. As an industrialist, he was a producer of hydrochloric, nitric and sulfuric acids, and was sought after as a technical consultant for the manufacture of gunpowder. Chaptal published works which drew on Antoine Lavoisier's theoretical chemistry to make advances in wine-making. Chaptal promoted the procedure of adding sugar to increase the final alcohol content of wines, now referred to as "chaptalization." Provided by Wikipedia