Claude Bernard / by M. Foster.

  • Foster, M. (Michael), Sir, 1836-1907.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Claude Bernard / by M. Foster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in Paris, or as they called it, la scene du Monde. And Bernard used to tell after- wards, in a joking spirit, how by chance they did later on meet together in the Place du Pantheon, in front of the well- known inscription Aux grands Hommes la Patrie reconnaissante ! And though the omen did not hold so good for the other two as it did for Bernard, yet one became a Bishop, and the other a Director of Railways. Bernard, with the help of the few francs which his little comedy had put in his pocket, started in the diligence for Paris, armed with his manuscript of Arthur de Bretagne, carefully rolled up, and with a letter of introduction to the great critic Saint-Marc Girardin, which a professor in the Faculty of Letters at Lyons had given him. It was in 1834, and he was just about one and twenty years old.