in one sentence the expression of an exalted sentiment. It 

 was with Chappuis that he exchanged his thoughts, and 

 together they mapped out a life in common. When Chappuis 

 went to Pans, the better to prepare himself for the Ecole 

 -Normale, Pasteur felt an ardent desire to go with him 

 Chappuis wrote to him with that open spontaneity which is 

 such a charm in youth, " I shall feel as if I had all my Franche 

 Comte with me when you are here." Pasteur's father feared 

 a crisis like that of 1838, and, after hesitating, refused his 

 consent to an immediate departure. " Next year," he said 



In October 1841, though still combining the functions of 

 master and student, Pasteur resumed his attendance of the 

 classes for special mathematics. But he was constantly think- 

 ing of Paris, 'Pans, where study is deeper." One of 

 Chapp Uls comrades, Bertm, whom Pasteur had met during 

 the holidays, had just entered the Ecole Normale at the head 



mathtmat. "* **"*"* * ** a *" ° f « 



"If I do not pass this year," Pasteur wrote to his father 



^"buT th " J *?* \ Sh °, Uld d ° WeU t0 ** t0 "^r 

 a year. But there is time to think of that and of the means 



o doing so without spending too much, if the occasion should 



arise. I see now what great advantage there is in giving two 



years to mathematics; everything becomes clearer and easier 



Of all our class students who tried this year for the Ecole 



Polytechnique and the Ecole Normale, not a single one has 



passed, not even the best of them, a student who had already 



done one year s mathematics at Lyons. The master we have 



now is very good. I feel sure I shall do a great deal this year " 



nhf4r 8 "TW SeC0Dd 1 \ hiS CkSS; ° DCe he was A"* '^ 

 physics That gives me hope for later on," he said He 



wrote about another mathematical competition "If I '*et a 

 j good place it will be well deserved, for this work has given me 

 , a pretty bad headache ; I always do get one, though, whenever 



we have a competition." Then, fearful of alarming his 

 ' parents, he hastily adds, " But those headaches never last long 



and it is only an hour and a half since we left off " 



hawTn?/ f$l ^ hard W ° rk blS gT0W1Q Z re S rets at °ot 

 having followed Chappuis to Paris, Pasteur imagined that he 



■Sr g th?F P i re M mSG ! f " Ec ° le Pol ^chnique as well as 



led Mm f t I™ 3 ! 6 - ° De ° f his masters - M - Bo ^he, had 

 led him to hope that he might be successful. " I shall try this 



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