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“La nature ne livre ses secrets qu’à ceux qui ne reculent devant aucun effort pour les lui arracher.”

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Trimmings of gold or silver lace, braid, beads, etc., for clothing and other objects.

  2. 2.

    This is Janssen’s great friend, the painter Jean-Jacques Henner (1829–1905).

  3. 3.

    The baccalaureate (Fr. “baccalauréat”) is the required qualification for university entrance.

  4. 4.

    The licentiate is a degree awarded by certain European universities, intermediate between those of bachelor and master (or doctor).

  5. 5.

    A well-known French dramatist (1815–1888), particularly noted for his comic farces and vaudeville pieces.

  6. 6.

    This is what we would now call the near infrared.

  7. 7.

    This is the subject of the thesis that he was to defend.

  8. 8.

    The journal in question is Le Moniteur scientifique. Here, as subsequently, any passages that are underlined are as they appeared in the original quotations.

  9. 9.

    Number 21 later became number 33.

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Launay, F. (2012). Childhood and Education. In: The Astronomer Jules Janssen. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 380. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0697-6_2

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