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He was born at Saint- Quentin, Aisne, France.

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.

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