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father. It is a powerful face, with, observation and meditation 

 apparent in the eyes, strength and caution in the mouth and 

 chin. 



Pasteur arrived at the Barbet Boarding School, no longer 

 a forlorn lad, but a tall student capable of teaching and engaged 

 for that purpose. He only paid one-third of the pupil's fees, 

 and in return had to give to the younger pupils some instruction 

 in mathematics every morning from six to seven. His room 

 was not in the school, but in the same Impasse des Feuillan- 

 tines; two pupils shared it with him. 



*'Do not be anxious about my health and work,*' he wrote 

 to his friends a few days after his arrival. *'I need hardly 

 get up till 5.45; you see it is not so very early." He went 

 on outlining the programme of his time. **I shall spend my 

 Thursdays in a neighbouring library with Chappuis, who has 

 four hours to himself that day. On Sundays we shall walk 

 and work a little together; we hope to do some Philosophy 

 on Sundays, perhaps too on Thursdays; I shall also read some 

 literary works. Surely you must see that I am not homesick 

 this time." 



Besides attending the classes of the Lycee St. Louis, he also 

 went to the Sorbonne ^ to hear the Professor, who, after taking 

 Gay-Lussac's place in 1832, had for the last ten years delighted 

 his audience by an eloquence and talent which opened bound- 

 less horizons before every mind. 



In a letter dated December 9, 1842, Pasteur wrote, *'I attend 

 at the Sorbonne the lectures of M. Dumas, a celebrated 

 chemist. You cannot imagine what a crowd of people come to 

 these lectures. The room is immense, and always quite full. 

 "We have to be there half an hour before the time to get a good 

 place, as you would in a theatre ; there is also a great deal of 

 applause; there are always six or seven hundred people." 



1 Sorbonne. Name given to the Paris Faculty of Theology and the 

 buildings in which it was established. It was originally intended by its 

 founder, Robert de Sorbon (who was chaplain to St. Louis, King of 

 France, 1270) as a special establishment to facilitate theological studies 

 for poor students. This college became one of the most celebrated in the 

 world, and produced so many clever theologians that it gave its name to 

 all the members of the Faculty of Theology. It was closed during the 

 Revolution in 1789, and its buildings, which had been restored by 

 Richelieu in the seventeenth century, were given to the University in 

 1808. Since 1821 they have been the seat of the Universitarian Academy 

 of Paris, and used for the lectures of the Faculties of Theology, of 

 Letters, and of Sciences. [Trans.] 



