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Louis Pasteur - hommage a ses découvertes sur les maladies des vers à soie

Louis Pasteur - Tribute to his discoveries on the diseases of silkworms

Dole 1822 - Saint-Cloud 1895
French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization
(Wikipedia)

Jean-Louis Chorel
1924

Lyon / Louis Pasteur - hommage a ses découvertes sur les maladies des vers à soie

Description

Large commemorative plaque with a portrait medaillon of Pasteur (PASTEUR 1822-1895) and a relief of a scene in a silk factory.

Lyon - Louis Pasteur - hommage a ses découvertes sur les maladies des vers à soie

cocons finis sur la bruyere - mise en cellule des papillons femelles - recherche de la pebrine
(cocoons finished on the heather - putting the female butterflies in a cell - search for the pepper disease).

Louis Pasteur was the first one to recognize the cause of this disease when a plague of the disease spread across France.

Inscription(s)

par ses decouvertes sur les maladies des vers a soie, la pebrine et la flacherie
pasteur a sauve la sericiculture de sa ruine 1865-1870
hommage de reconnaissance de la chambre de commerce de lyon,
des industries et du commerce lyonnais de la soie

9 mars 1924

Signature

Jean Chorel

Artist

Jean-Louis Chorel (Lyon 1875 - Villeurbanne 1946), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Location (N 45°46'8" - E 4°50'3") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frra200; Photograph: 14 August 2018
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