Crossword-Solution: CIRE 4 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

This substance known to French chemists by the name “adipo-cire,” was first discovered by Sir Thomas Browne.

They called it Ziegel-lak, whence the German Siegel-lack, the French preferring cire-ŕ-cacheter, as distinguished from cire-ŕ-sceller, the softer material.

This, as its title imports, is a skit, levelled at the recent _Histoire et Secret de la Peinture en Cire_ of Diderot, who nevertheless refers to Rouquet under _Émail_, in the _Dictionnaire Encyclapédique_, as "_un homme habile_." He seems, however (like "_la_ _peinture à l'huile_)," to have been somewhat "_difficile_"; and as we have said, his discoveries (for he had that useful element in enamel-work, considerable chemical knowledge), like Zincke's, perished with him.

First, he puts the silver in a crucible, and when it has become fluid, he turns it into a mould in which there is wax (this is evidently the "cire perdu" process familiar to casters of every age), and then he says, "If by some negligence it should happen that the melted silver be not whole, cast it again until it is whole." This process of casting would apply equally to all metals.

Torel worked at the palace, and the statues were cast in "cire perdue" process, being executed in the churchyard itself.