Table of Contents

1. The Cosmopolitan Province 2. Youth, Revolution and Vocation 3. The Conquest of the City 4. Problems and Opportunities of the Empire: Science and the Imperial University 5. The Restoration and the Crisis of Patronage 6. Controversy, Authority and the Market: Lamarck, Gall and Naturphilosophie 7. Geology, History and the Shaping of a Self-Image 8. Families, Friends and Institutions: the Paris Museum of Natural History 9. Patronage and the Post-Revolutionary Elite: Enquiry and Conclusion

About the Author

Dorinda Outram