Reminder: Annick Perrot and Maxime Schwartz sign copies of their new book Le génie de Pasteur au secours des Poilus on March 29

On Tuesday March 29, from 5 to 8pm, Annick Perrot, honorary curator of the Institut Pasteur, and Maxime Schwartz, former President of the Institut Pasteur, will be signing copies of their book Le génie de Pasteur au secours des Poilus.

"Pasteur and his disciples, including Roux, Yersin, Calmette and many others, developed vaccines and serums that were used to combat infections and ultimately to fight deadly epidemics of plague, diphtheria and typhus. But what we didn't know, and what Annick Perrot and Maxime Schwartz reveal in this book, is that all these discoveries also saved lives during the First World War." (Éditions Odile Jacob)

This event, organized in partnership with the publisher Éditions Odile Jacob and the bookshop La Cédille, will be held in the "Salle des Actes" of the Pasteur Museum. At 5.30pm, the authors will give a short presentation of their book, followed by a talk from Christian Bréchot.

Photo: René Legroux's Laboratory

René Legroux's Laboratory laboratory at Institut Pasteur. The classroom was transformed into a "factory" for the preparation of vaccines for the army during World War I, around 1915-1918. The people seen in the photograph are in all likelihood the spouses and children of Pasteurians who left for the front.