 Before her death, Paulze was able to recover nearly all of Lavoisier's notebooks and chemical apparatuses, most of which survive in a collection at Cornell University, the largest of its kind outside of Europe.The year she died, a book was published, showing that Marie-Anne had a rich theological library with books which included versions of The Bible, St. Augustine's "Confessions", Jacques Saurin's "Discours sur la Bible", Pierre Nicole's "Essais de Morale", Blaise Pascal's "Lettres provinciales, "Louis Bourdaloue's "Sermons", Thomas à Kempis's "De Imitatione Christi, etc.Paulze began receiving artistic instruction from the painter Jacques-Louis David in later 1785 or early 1786.