Excerpt from Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur was descended from one of those ancient peasant families that were at tached for centuries to the land they tilled, and who have given so many illustrious sons to France. In the seventeenth century his anoes tors were still serfs Of the soil, in Franche Comt???, and the first who arose from servitude was Louis Pasteur's great-grandfather, Claude Etienne, who, having abandoned the labour of the fields, was in the middle of the eighteenth century a tanner at Salins, and one of the ...
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Excerpt from Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur was descended from one of those ancient peasant families that were at tached for centuries to the land they tilled, and who have given so many illustrious sons to France. In the seventeenth century his anoes tors were still serfs Of the soil, in Franche Comt???, and the first who arose from servitude was Louis Pasteur's great-grandfather, Claude Etienne, who, having abandoned the labour of the fields, was in the middle of the eighteenth century a tanner at Salins, and one of the bour geoisie Of that town. He came of a race distin guished for serious-mindedness and aptitude for toil, positive qualities which produced ar tizans solicitous of the good renown of their calling, and gifts of imagination which urged them on to raise themselves above their en vironment by a superior education. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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