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barber's art was almost simultaneously illustrated by Ambroise Pare, born at 

 Laval in the beginning of the sixteenth century, who, occupying the most 

 humble position upon his arrival in Paris, soon exchanged his rough barber's 

 stall upon the Place St. Michel for the Louvre, and who, Huguenot as he was, 

 was enabled, through the favour of several kings, to reform, or rather to 

 create afresh, the art of surgery by associating it with medicine. 





Fig. 124. Banner of the Corporation of Apothecaries in the Mayenne. 



