LOUIS PASTEUR CLASSIC REPRINT

ISBN: 9780265909683 Géneros: PS Sinópsis: Excerpt from Louis PasteurLouis 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 Comte and the first who arose from servitude was Louis Pasteurs greatgrandfather 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 seriousmindedness 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 educationAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart 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