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HISTORICAL SURVEY
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country was not benefited by his discovery to the extent that it might have been, and his name was for the time even forgotten by his own countrymen. It was not until 1886, after millions of tons of soda ash had
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Fig. 2. LeBlanc statue in Paris.
been made in England and Germany by the LeBlanc process, that they began to erect a statue in his honor at the Conservatory of Arts and Trades in Paris (Fig. 2)
Because of the prolonged wars into which France had been plunged,
