Behind Charles de Gaulle and ahead of Victor Hugo, Louis Pasteur is the second of our great men to whom the grateful country has dedicated the greatest number of streets, boulevards and avenues.
In Brest and Lyon, there are even dead ends Pasteur.
To the greatest satisfaction of memory breakers.
For a good half-century, these statue busters have been committed to demonstrating that the work of the father of the French school of microbiology, famous for having developed a vaccine against rabies in 1885, would have remained paths that lead nowhere. leaves without the discoveries of his contemporaries - rivals and disciples whom the master would have generously plundered.
In the new biography of Pasteur which he publishes on the occasion of the second centenary of the birth of the most famous of French scientists, Michel Morange recognizes the interest of iconoclastic works on the life and work of a man who has become the symbol universal in the fight against epidemics.
With the sociologist...
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