Errrr Lavoisier been guillotined during French Revolution... Stupid frenchies... Hope ur head is well screwed on
No one is ever too old for anything. Besides, it is a book. I just read everything. From Harry Potter to Hamlet, from a simple magazine to the the bills that arrive home.
Yes, Lavoisier was guillotined. A great mind was lost. Literally. But that doesn't give you the right to generalise an entire culture and population by calling them 'stupid'.