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the body, ended by triumphing over the affliction. 

 Paralysed on the left side, Pasteur never recovered the 

 use of his limbs. To this day, sixteen years after the 

 attack, he limps like a wounded man. But what 

 stages had this wounded man yet to travel over, what 

 triumphs were yet in store for him ! 



