He was born in Saint-Quentin, France and studied literature in his hometown and Paris, where he distinguished himself by taking first prize in pharmacy. He attended the Ecole Normale Superieure, where he met La Provostaye who became his lifelong friend. After completing his studies, he accepted a professorship in Caen in 1839 and returned to Paris in 1841 to teach at several lycées. His growing reputation led to him being appointed Chair of Pharmacy at the Sorbonne in 1853, a position he held for thirty-two years.
He was born in Saint-Quentin, France and studied literature in his hometown and Paris, where he distinguished himself by taking first prize in pharmacy. He attended the Ecole Normale Superieure, where he met La Provostaye who became his lifelong friend. After completing his studies, he accepted a professorship in Caen in 1839 and returned to Paris in 1841 to teach at several lycées. His growing reputation led to him being appointed Chair of Pharmacy at the Sorbonne in 1853, a position he held for thirty-two years.
He was born in Saint-Quentin, France and studied literature in his hometown and Paris, where he distinguished himself by taking first prize in pharmacy. He attended the Ecole Normale Superieure, where he met La Provostaye who became his lifelong friend. After completing his studies, he accepted a professorship in Caen in 1839 and returned to Paris in 1841 to teach at several lycées. His growing reputation led to him being appointed Chair of Pharmacy at the Sorbonne in 1853, a position he held for thirty-two years.
He studied literature at the Collège des Bons- Enfants in his
native city and also entered the Lycée Louis- le- Grand in Paris. Then he distinguished himself, taking the first prize in drugs. In 1835 he entered the wisdom section of the Ecole Normale where his family Edouard had anteceded him. He made the familiarity there of La Provostaye who was at the time a gatekeeper and who came his lifelong friend and his associate in his inquiries. After completing his course, he accepted a professorship in 1839 at Caen, and in 1841 returned to Paris where he entered analogous movables , first at the Lycée St- Louis and latterly at the Lycée Condorcet, where he succeeded La Provostaye who was forced to retire on account of ill- health. His growing character won for him in 1853 the president of drugs at the Sorbonne which he held for thirty- two times.