Publication of the book "Pasteur à la plage : Le monde des microbes dans un transat" (Pasteur at the beach: the microbial universe in a deckchair)

To celebrate this year of commemorations for Louis Pasteur's bicentenary, several books showcasing the values of this unique figure are being published.

Following the publication of Pasteur, l'homme et le savant (Pasteur, the man and the scientist) back in February by Editions Tallandier, the book Pasteur à la plage : Le monde des microbes dans un transat (Pasteur at the beach: the microbial universe in a deckchair), again co-authored by Annick Perrot, honorary curator of the Pasteur Museum, and Maxime Schwartz, former Director of the Institut Pasteur, has now been published by Editions Dunod.

Why did Louis Pasteur become famous? Was it for discovering vaccines? For inventing pasteurization?

These discoveries clearly helped forge his reputation, but his achievements go further. Like Christopher Columbus and his discovery of America, the French scientist revealed the existence of a fascinating universe, one that we knew nothing about at the time – the universe of microbes.

Maxime Schwartz and Annick Perrot take us on a voyage of discovery of these bacteria and viruses that are vectors for disease but are also essential for maintaining a healthy balance, both in our bodies and on the planet. Be warned – once you've left your deckchair, you'll never see the world in the same way again...

 

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The idea behind this collection is to give readers the opportunity to encounter great ideas and great minds while sitting comfortably in a deckchair on the beach.

 

Although he was undoubtedly a visionary, one might wonder whether Pasteur could have imagined just how important microbiology, the science that he created, would become. Not only are microbes everywhere; they were also the starting point for the emergence of modern biology, with the identification of DNA as the basis for genetic information.

Maxime Schwartz

 

 

This new scientific outreach book is squarely in line with the Pasteurian tradition of knowledge transfer.

Annick Perrot

 

Drawing produced by Fabrice Hyber