PASTEUR AND AFTER PASTEUR 



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were poor, but of good descent : the Pasteur family 

 has been traced back to the seventeenth century, 

 and the Roqui to the sixteenth two old families 

 of working-folk. Their first child died in infancy : 

 then, in 1818, a daughter was born to them : in 

 1822, Louis, the only son: in later years, two 

 daughters. From Dole, the family moved to 

 Marnoz, and thence to Arbois. Dole is Pasteur's 

 birthplace, Arbois was his home : a little house 

 with a tanyard, close to the town and to the river. 

 His boyhood was uneventful : he went to Arbois 

 primary school, and to classes at Arbois College : 

 he was fairly good at his lessons : and he had a 

 talent for drawing portraits. What more should 

 there be eighty years ago, for a poor man's child 

 in a little French country town ? But M. Romanet, 

 the principal of Arbois College, urged him to work 

 for a degree : and in October, 1838, he and another 

 boy were sent to a boarding-school in Paris. The 

 journey, forty-eight hours outside the coach in 

 bitter weather, and the loneliness in Paris, took 

 the heart out of him. Never was a boy, away from 

 home, more miserable. " I should get all right," 

 he said to the other boy, " if only I could smell 

 the tanyard :" and the end of it was, that his father 

 brought him back to Arbois. It was his first and 

 last failure. In 1839, he carried off a whole armful 

 of prizes from Arbois College: and in 1840 went 



