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Sally Darr, Formidable Chef of ’80s-Era French Bistro, Dies at 100
nytimes.com
Ch. Lavillaugouet has been in the business of assainissement, water drainage, since 1872, and I’m not the first person they’ve saved in Paris.
David Lebovitz • L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home
médecin français Jean Itard (1774-1838),
Oliver Houde • L'école du cerveau: De Montessori, Freinet et Piaget aux sciences cognitives (PSY. Théories, débats, synthèses t. 15) (French Edition)
Royat physicians would eventually bottle up carbon dioxide and administer it as an inhalant.
James Nestor • Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
“Boerhaave, Germany, (1765) stated: ‘We frequently find persons rendered paralytic by exposing themselves imprudently to quicksilver, dispersed into vapors by the fire, as gilders, chemists, miners, etc., and perhaps there are other poisons, which may produce the same disease, even externally applied’.”
Dawn Lester • What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong
The guillotine, that high-tech tool of the Jacobin Terror, was ironically the invention of a progressive Paris physician, Dr Joseph Guillotin