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Crypt, wall covered with a marble panel engraved with Louis Pasteur's discoveries.
Luc-Olivier Merson, Charles Girault1895/1896
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France
Louis Pasteur died on September 28, 1895 in Marnes-la-Coquette and was laid to rest in a Neo Byzantine style funeral chapel, the Crypt, at the heart of the Institut Pasteur.
Louis Pasteur had a state funeral, but his wife, Marie Pasteur, refused to allow Louis Pasteur to be interred in the Panthéon.
A crypt was therefore built, the work of architect Charles-Louis Girault, mosaic artist Auguste Guilbert-Martin, and painter Luc-Olivier Merson.
Through its magnificent multicolored mosaics, the chapel offers an overview of Louis Pasteur's discoveries.
Marie Pasteur was interred there in 1910.
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- Title: Crypt, wall covered with a marble panel engraved with Louis Pasteur's discoveries.
- Creator: Charles-Louis Girault, Auguste Guilbert-Martin, Luc-Olivier Merson
- Date Created: 1895/1896
- Subject Keywords: Crypte
- Type: Crypte
- Rights: © Institut Pasteur/Musée Pasteur
- External Link: Mur gauche de la croisée du transept
- Compléments: The walls of the intersection of the transept are covered with two marble panels, which are engraved with Louis Pasteur's greatest discoveries. Here, on the right wall: 1871 Studies on Beer, 1877 Virulent Diseases, 1880 Virus Vaccines, 1885 Rabies Prophylaxis.
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