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Excerpt from Louis Pasteur's welcome speech at the Académie Française on April 27, 1882.
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: Excerpt from Louis Pasteur's welcome speech at the Académie Française on April 27, 1882.
- 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: Entrée de la Crypte
- Compléments: Located at the entrance to the Crypt, a panel on which is inscribed an excerpt from Louis Pasteur's welcome speech upon his entry into the Académie Française on April 27, 1882. "Blessed is he who carries within him a God, an ideal of beauty, and who obeys him: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the motherland, ideal of the virtues of the Gospel.
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