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devoted friend whose services he never forgot, for he loved to 
recall, in the days of his prosperity, how much the house of 
Leblanc had succoured him at his entrance into professional 
life. 
“ This career of M. Leblanc, so actively and so usefully em- 
ployed, should surely well merit his occupying in due time one 
of the places at the Academy of Medicine reserved for the repre- 
sentatives of veterinary science. This was his ambition, and 
it was perfectly legitimate ; he had to struggle to realise it, 
but this striving was as natural to him as the determination 
to succeed, and, without allowing himself to be discouraged 
by the opposition he encountered at several successive 
meetings, he maintained his candidature, and finished by 
making it prevail. This was justice, and his academic 
career well proved it to be so. During the whole period of 
nearly twenty years that Leblanc belonged to this assembly, 
there was not a discussion on any subject on which he was 
competent to speak that he did not take a share in with all 
the authority of his knowledge and his vast experience. 
“ M. Leblanc belonged to all the veterinary societies in 
France, and a large number of those of other countries. The 
Acclimatisation Society and the Society for the Prevention 
of Cruelty to Animals reckoned him among their members, 
and, notwithstanding the occupation that the most extensive 
practice in Paris gave him, he still found time enough to be 
assiduous at their meetings. 
“ Notwithstanding the seventy- three years of age to which 
he had attained, M. Leblanc was, until a few months ago, full 
of that greenness which should have permitted him still to 
reckon upon long days ; but the accident to which he was 
the victim at this time crushed his hopes. Nearly killed, he 
nevertheless contrived to get about again, so vigorous was his 
constitution ; but the blow he had received was an in- 
surmountable one, and after surviving a few months, during 
which he was quite changed from what he used to be, he 
suddenly died. 
“ The ancients said that when death took away a man in 
his youth, it might be considered a favour from the gods. 
At the sad period in which we live, one is almost tempted to 
say that the death which seized Leblanc when in the full posses- 
sion of all his faculties, had been sent through the favour of 
Providence, to spare him the anguish of the dreadful spectacle 
that surrounds us. He who had so patriotic a soul has 
happily been exempted from beholding Paris a prey to the 
greatest indignities, and witnessing the sanguinary drama 
which has so stained our history. 
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