What did Joseph-Louis Lagrange say after Antoine Lavoisier was executed?

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Portrait of French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, shown in formal 18th-century attire with a white wig and ruffled cravat, looking slightly to his left. — Antoine Lavoisier Antoine Lavoisier.

Following the execution of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier in 1794, his contemporary, the mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange, remarked: "It took them only an instant to cut off that head, and a hundred years may not produce another like it."12