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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.
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A slightly less poignant but better documented narrative is
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that he committed suicide in despair of the German occupation.
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Well, the Pasteur Institute--
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that's the vaccination of Joseph Meister.
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It's not Pasteur doing the actual vaccination,
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because, as I said, he wasn't a physician.
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And this is the Pasteur Institute,founded in 1887,