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[empirearchives]

Rumford soup kitchens and job programs under Napoleon

(Pic: Recipe of Rumford soup in the cookbook of Sophia Juliana Weiler, in 1810)

When the government noticed unemployment creeping up again, it engaged as many workers as possible in military supply. Cobblers were set to making shoes for the army, so long as the shoes were of good quality; hat makers' skills were enlisted to make shakos (military headwear); and other unemployed workers fabricated baggage carts. When even those measures could not better the condition of the unemployed and disadvantaged, Napoleon called for the expansion of soup kitchens for the distribution of Rumford soup. Created by an American-born inventor-scientist, it was free to indigents and sold at low cost to others.

According to reports, Rumford soup was a miracle broth requiring no flour in its preparation, and it was allegedly as nutritious as bread. While communes could, in all likelihood, manage their own distribution, Napoleon contracted out the building and maintenance of these agencies of social welfare in Paris. By 1812, in Paris alone 30,000 pounds of bread and 40,000 bowls of soup had fed the population. The work had been so successful that Napoleon reported, “We may fairly boast nowadays that not a single inhabitant of Paris suffers from lack of food.”

Source: Susan P. Conner, The Age of Napoleon

The author sources the last quote from Napoleon to the Ministerial Council, March 11, 1812, in Napoleon's Letters, 265-66.

[lindahall]

Benjamin Thompson – Scientist of the Day

Benjamin Thompson, better known as Count Rumford, an American-born British physical scientist, was born Mar. 26, 1753.

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You can find about her marriage in wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Pierrette_Paulze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Thompson

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[ladycharitysshop]

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[colleenrants]

“Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics. He served as lieutenant-colonel of the King's American Dragoons, part of the British Loyalist forces, during the American Revolutionary War. After the end of the war he moved to London, where his administrative talents were recognized when he was appointed a full colonel, and in 1784 he received a knighthood from King George III. A prolific designer, Thompson also drew designs for warships. He later moved to Bavaria and entered government service there, being appointed Bavarian Army Minister and re-organizing the army, and, in 1791, was made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire.”

[rickinmar]

Benjamin Thompson was born outside of Boston in Woburn but spent his teenage years in Salem, where he excelled at math. He fled during the Revolution as a loyalist settling in London where his experiments on heat, physics, thermodynamics made him one of the leading scientists in Europe. He was chosen by the King of Bavaria to set up laboratories in Munich, but he also set up the largest Munich city park, and reorganized the army. He then moved to Paris, where he married Lavoisier's widow. He is known as Count Rumford, bestowed by Bavaria. The Rumford comes from his first wife's hometown in New Hampshire. The Royal Society has the Rumford Medal, and Harvard, the Rumford Professor. He is buried in Paris. The monuments shown are in Paris and Munich.

[thebeatofmyowndrum]

Potatoes weren’t introduced to Germany until about 1790.

These are things I’m learning while writing my history thesis.

AND THE GERMAN PEOPLE WERE SUSPICIOUS OF THE POTATO AND IT HAD TO BE SNUCK INTO THEIR FOOD FOR BETTER NUTRIENTS

[rickinmar]

house on Essex Street Salem...lived in at one time by Count Rumford...(( Benjamin Thompson..)) honored in both America and Europe for his contributions to physics, thermal studies, armaments and mathematics. Loyalist during the Revolution. Made a Count by the Holy Roman Empire....