PASTEUR AND AFTER 

 PASTEUR 



i. 



EARLY YEARS OF PASTEUR'S LIFE 



IT is not possible to measure, or to put into words, 

 the value of Pasteur's work and the range of his 

 influence. All attempts to estimate or explain 

 him are mere foolishness. Genius made his work 

 what it was : and genius is no more the result of 

 circumstances than a play by Shakspeare is the 

 result of a theatre and an audience. 



He was born at Dole, in the Jura district, 

 December 27, 1822. His father, Jean Joseph 

 Pasteur, had served in the Peninsular War, risen 

 from the ranks, and received the Cross of the 

 Legion of Honour. After Fontainebleau, the regi- 

 ment was disbanded ; and he went back to the 

 business of tanning, which had been in the family 

 for two generations before him. In 1815, he 

 married Jeanne Etiennette Roqui. He and she 



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