The life of Pasteur

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René Vallery-Radot. The life of Pasteur

The life of Pasteur

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INTRODUCTION

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II

III

CHAPTER I. 1822—1843

CHAPTER II. 1844—1849

CHAPTER III. 1850—1854

CHAPTER IV. 1855—1859

CHAPTER V. 1860—1864

CHAPTER VI. 1865—1870

CHAPTER VII. 1870—1872

CHAPTER VIII. 1873—1877

CHAPTER IX. 1877—1879

CHAPTER X. 1880—1882

CHAPTER XI. 1882—1884

CHAPTER XII. 1884—1885

CHAPTER XIII. 1885—1888

CHAPTER XIV. 1889—1895

INDEX

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René Vallery-Radot

Published by Good Press, 2021

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In a letter dated December 9, 1842, Pasteur wrote, “I attend at the Sorbonne the lectures of M. Dumas, a celebrated chemist. You cannot imagine what a crowd of people come to these lectures. The room is immense, and always quite full. We have to be there half an hour before the time to get a good place, as you would in a theatre; there is also a great deal of applause; there are always six or seven hundred people.” Under this rostrum, Pasteur became, in his own words, a “disciple” full of the enthusiasm inspired by Dumas.

Happy in this industrious life, he wrote in response to an expression of his parents’ provincial uneasiness as to the temptations of the Latin Quarter. “When one wishes to keep straight, one can do so in this place as well as in any other; it is those who have no strength of will that succumb.”

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