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take no risk of being deceived. In his presence Pasteur 

 picked out the crystals, and stated the expected results. 



FIG. 207. Louis Pasteur. 



When it all came out exactly as he said, Biot took 

 Pasteur's arm and said : "My dear boy, I have loved 

 science so much during my life, that this touches my 

 very heart!" Thenceforth Pasteur had a faithful 

 friend and supporter in this influential old man. 



5. In 1849 Pasteur went, as professor of chemistry, to Marriage 

 the academy or college at Strasburg, which was then in 

 French territory. 1 He had not been there long, when 

 he fell in love with Mademoiselle Marie Laurent, the 



1 As a result of the recent war, it is once more a French city. 



