If it helps at all, enough to build a canning factory according to Wikipedia. > Unfortunately for Appert, the factory which he had built with his prize money w

If it helps at all, enough to build a canning factory according to Wikipedia. > Unfortunately for Appert, the factory which he had built with his prize money was razed in 1814 by Allied soldiers when they entered France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canning#French_Origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canning#French_Origins