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the glass tubing, and so forth-were at first laid claim to by Lange in England (a<br />

man with whom Argand had heen associatedL befOl'e being stolen in Paris by<br />

Quinquet, who gave his name to the invention. And thus Argand ended in misery:<br />

'<strong>The</strong> misanthropy to which he succumbed after the withdrawal of his patent led<br />

him to seek a compensation of sorts in the occult sciences . ... 'During the last<br />

years of his life, he was seen wandering through graveyards gathering bones and<br />

dust from tombs, which he would then submit to chemical processes in the hope<br />

of finding in death the secret of prolonging life. '" He himself died young.<br />

A Drohojowska, Les C"andes Industries de ia France: L'Eclairage<br />

(Paris

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