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Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze
Marie-Anne Pierette Paulze (1758-1836) was the wife and collaborator of Antoine Lavoisier, an eighteenth-century French nobleman and scientist, both a geologist and sometimes called "the father of modern chemistry". The daughter of one of Lavoisier's co-owners of the Ferme Générale that collected taxes for the Crown, she married him when she was only thirteen in 1771 (Lavoisier was about 28).
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