CHAPTER I 



HOME LIFE, EARLY TRAINING AND 



AMBITIONS 



In the London Times for December 13, 1922, oc- 

 curs this item: "M. Victor Berard, The President 

 of the Senatorial Commission of France on Edu- 

 cation, announces that the bells of Dole will be 

 rung for two minutes preceding five o'clock on the 

 evening of December 27, and that all the bells of 

 the Franche-Compte from the plain of the Saone 

 to the crests of the Jura will reply to them. He 

 suggests that during these two minutes all the bells 

 should ring in unison to recall the great work 

 which France has accomplished during the last 

 hundred years." On this occasion the French peo- 

 ple, who love to honor their great men, paused to 

 celebrate by a beautiful and fitting ceremony, the 

 hundredth anniversary of the birth of Louis Pas- 

 teur, who was born in the little village of Dole, 

 December 27, 1822. 



Most biographies have something to say about 

 parents and other ancestors if only to chronicle a 



few dry details of names and dates. The parents 



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