physics and chemistry teacher, mayor of Joinville-le-Pont (Val-de-Marne)
Born May 5, 1849, in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne.
He died on December 1, 1919, in Joinville-le-Pont.
Professor of chemistry
Achille Mermet (sometimes also identified as Ernest Mermet, but signed A. Mermet) was born on May 5, 1849 in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne (Yonne).
After receiving a state scholarship, he entered the Ecole Normale d'Enseignement Spécial de Cluny (Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy), first as a student, then as a preparator (1869-1873). In September 1875, he was assigned to the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris (Seine) as a lecturer, becoming a teacher in 1877. He taught at the Lycée Charlemagne for thirty-four years, taking several sick leaves due to typhoid.
At the same time as teaching, Achille Mermet carried out research as head of the laboratory at the EcoleCentrale.
Author of several memoirs, laureate and member of several learned societies, he wrote several letters to the journal La Nature, for example in 1883 on nickel crucibles or in 1884 on the explosion of tempered glass.
Achille Mermet was the author of Manipulations de chimie - Métalloïdes, published in 1885 by P. Dupont, (817 pages).
He died on December 1, 1919, in Joinville-le-Pont (Val-
He was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.
Mayor of Joinville-le-Pont
Achille Mermet lived in Joinville-le-Pont (then in the Seine department),
In1912, he succeededEugène Voisin (1834-1914), mayor since1896.
His term of office, which should have ended in 1916, was extended by the First World War until1919.