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face; a young woman in white; an old nun of eighty-two in a 

 fluted cap, wearing a white hood and an ivory cross; a little 

 boj of ten in a velvet suit, a melancholy-looking child, not 

 destined to grow to manhood. Pasteur obligingly drew any 

 one who wished to have a portrait. Among all these pastels, 

 two are really remarkable. The first represents, in his official 

 garb, a M. Blondeau, registrar of mortgages, whose gentle and 

 refined features are perfectly delineated. The other is the por- 

 trait of a mayor of Arbois, M. Pareau; he wears his silver- 

 embroidered uniform, with a white stock. The cross of the 

 Legion of Honour and the tricolour scarf are discreetly indi- 

 cated. The whole interest is centred in the smiling face, with 

 hair brushed up a la Louis Philippe, and blue eyes harmonizing 

 with a blue ground. 



The compliments of this local dignitary and Romanet's 

 renewed counsels at the end of the year — ^when Pasteur took 

 more school prizes than he could carry — reawakened within 

 him the ambition for the Ecole Normale. 



There was no "philosophy"^ class in the college of Arbois, 

 and a return to Paris seemed formidable. Pasteur resolved 

 to go to the college at Besancon, where he could go on with 

 his studies, pass his baccalaureat and then prepare for the 

 examinations of the Ecole Normale. Besancon is only forty 

 kilometres from Arbois, and Joseph Pasteur was in the habit 

 of going there several times a year to sell some of his prepared 

 skins. This was by far the wisest solution of the problem. 



On his arrival at the Royal College of Franche Comte 

 Pasteur found himself under a philosophy master, M. Daunas, 



1 Philosophie class. In French secondary schools or lyc6es the forms 

 or classes, in Pasteur's time, were arranged as follows, starting from the 

 bottom — 



1° huiti&me. 



2° septieme. 



6" sixieme (French grammar was begun). 



5"* cinquieme (Latin was begun). 



6° quatri&me (Greek was begun). 



7° troisi^me. 



8° seconde. 



> * .^ 



9® Mathematiques elementaires. Rh6torique. 



10° Mathematiques speciales. Philosophie. 



The seconde students who intended to pass their baccalaureat is 



sciences went into the mathematiques elementaires class, whilst those 



who were destined for letters or the law entered the rhetorique class, 



from which they went on to the philosophie class. I^Trans.] 



