CHAPTER II 



A LABORIOUS AND ENTHUSIASTIC YOUTH 



HE was at this time a young man with a 

 grave and meditative face, but under 

 an apparent coldness he hid an ardent and en- 

 thusiastic heart and an imagination ever on 

 the alert. Louis Pasteur feared nothing from 

 the dangers of Paris. His powerful strength of 

 will protected him from pleasures which might 

 otherwise have turned him from his path, and 

 he was glad to realise how easily his passionate 

 love of work enabled him to dispense with 

 them. 



On arriving at the Pension Barbet, situated 

 in the Impasse des Feuillantines, he once more 

 found Chappuis, the confidential friend and 

 faithful companion of his leisure hours, and he 

 mapped out his daily life in such a way as to 



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