6 THE LIFE OF PASTEUR 



almost secretive, with a slow and careful mind apparently 

 absorbed in bis own inner life; sbe was very active, full of 

 imagination, and ready enthusiasm. 



The young couple migrated to Dole and settled down in the 

 Rue des Tanneurs. Their first child only lived a few months ; 

 in 1818 a little daughter came. Four years later in a small 

 room of their humble home, on Friday, December 27, 1822, at 

 2 a.m., Louis Pasteur was born. 



Two daughters were born later — one at Dole and the other 

 at Marnoz, in the house of the Roqui. Jean Joseph Pasteur's 

 mother-in-law, now a widow, considering that her great age no 

 longer allowed her to administer her fortune, had divided all 

 she possessed between her son Jean Claude Roqui, a landed 

 proprietor at Marnoz, and Jeanne Etiennette her daughter. 



Thus called away from Dole by family interests, Jean Joseph 

 Pasteur came to live at Marnoz. The place was not very 

 favourable to his trade, though a neighbouring brook rendered 

 the establishment of a tannery possible. The house, though 

 many times altered, still bears the name of **Maison Pasteur^," 

 On one of the inner doors the veteran, who had a taste for 

 painting, had depicted a soldier in an old uniform now become 

 a peasant and tilling the soil. This figure stands against a 

 background of grey sky and distant hills; leaning on his spade 

 the man suspends his labours and dreams of past glories. It is 

 easy to criticize the faults in the painting, but the sentimental 

 allegory is full of feeling. 



Louis Pasteur's earliest recollections dated from that time; 

 he could remember running joyously along the Aiglepierre road. 

 The Pasteur family did not remain long at Marnoz. A tannery 

 was to let in the neighbourhood by the town of Arbois, near the 

 bridge which crosses the Cuisance, and only a few kilometres 

 from the source of the river. The house, behind its modest 

 frontage, presented the advantage of a yard where pits had 

 been dug for the preparation of the skins. Joseph Pasteur 

 took this little house and settled there with his wife and chil- 

 dren. 



Louis Pasteur was sent at first to the ^'Ecole Primaire" 

 attached to the college of Arbois. Mutual teaching was then 

 the fashion; scholars were divided into groups: one child 

 taught the rudiments of reading to others, who then spelt aloud 

 in a sort of sing-song. The master, M. Renaud, went from 

 group to group designating the monitors. Louis soon desired 



