Claude Bernard / by M. Foster.

  • Foster, M. (Michael), Sir, 1836-1907.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Claude Bernard / by M. Foster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bread. As a child he must have been bright, for the cure took him under his special charge, making him a choir boy and teaching him Latin. He afterwards was sent to the school or so-called college at Villefranche, directed by the Jesuits. When he had learnt as much as his teachers could teach him at the college, he was sent to Lyons, with the view probably, in the first instance, of his completing his studies and obtaining the Baccalaurcat. But his student career at Lyons could not have been a very lengthy one, for he soon entered into active life, exchanging the school for the shop. The reasons which led to this step cannot be ascertained, but they do seem to have been financial. The family, though humble, were not with- out resources. Claude appears to have been an only son, with one sister, who