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the first person ever known to have survived
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after being severely bitten by a rabid animal.
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And Meister remained loyal for the rest of his life,
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to Pasteur.
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He returned, as an adult,to Paris,
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to work as a gatekeeper at the Pasteur Institute,
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where Pasteur himself was buried in the crypt.
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The apocryphal story--I won't assert its truth--
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the story is that he was killed in 1940,as an elderly man,
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when he tried to prevent occupying German troops
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from desecrating Pasteur's grave,
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the grave of a national icon of an enemy power.