Les Maisons de Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur, France's most famous chemist and biologist, was born in Dole in 1822. He loved this modest tannery, whose terraces overlook the canal des tanneurs and the old town. He moved to Arbois at the age of 8, and later transformed the house he inherited from his parents into a summer house with a well-equipped laboratory.
Pasteur was attached to his two Jura homes. He loved the modest tannery where he was born, with its terraces overlooking the tanners' canal and the old town of Dole. It was a thrill for him to rediscover his roots there, and to see how far he had come.
He invested a great deal of time and energy in his home in Arbois, the only one he ever owned. Louis Pasteur returned there throughout his life. Preserved intact since his death, the house gives the impression that he has just left it. From the billiard table to the personal laboratory, from pasteurization to vaccines, it's a place that fully evokes Pasteur's revolution around microbes.
His birthplace in Dole, his home and his laboratory in Arbois can be visited with or without a guide.
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