[On Ambroise Paré: his adversaries, his enemies].
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[Ambroise Paré in French literature].
The 16th century by its passionate side has been the favourite one of authors of historical novels in which among the heroes of "cloak and dagger stories" appears sometime Ambroise Paré. Alexandre Dumas (the father) has shown him at the court of Charles IX in La Reine Margot (1845) where he does not however play a great role. On the contrary, Balzac in Le Martyr calviniste (1842) has given him a capital part close to the dying François II, whom he intended to trepanize but had to give up this idea as a consequence of the opposition of the queen-mother Catherine de Médicis. In the present century, Robert Merle in Paris ma bonne ville (Fortune de France, 3, 1980) shows Paré at the time of the Saint Barthélemy.
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[The anatomical plates of Antommarchi].
Mascagni, professor of anatomy in Florence, died in the same town in 1815, leaving manuscripts and drawings for an intended publication of a comprehensive complete anatomy with life-size figures. His prosector, Antommarchi, prepared the publication but was meanwhile called to Saint Helena. He left, taking with him three copies of Mascagni's plates. When he returned, he published these plates, printed from lithographs, under his own name in a monumental work which appeared from 1823 to 1826 under the title of: Planches anatomiques du corps humain exécutées d'après les dimensions naturelles.
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[The discovery of descendants of Ambroise Pare (1510-1590). His family formerly till howadays].
By a curious chance the author has been allowed to find the track of present descendants of Ambroise Pare badly known or ignored today. On Pare's ten children only three daughters survived. Two had many descendants: Catherine (1560-1616) daughter of Pare's first wife Jeanne Mazelin and another Catherine (1581-1659) daughter of his second wife Jacqueline Rousselet, who married Claude Hedelin. While traveling through the centuries the author has arrived to the count Philippe de Chastellux, the present director of the biblioteque Genealogique in Paris, descendant of Pare's first marriage and to the family of the counts de Longueau Saint Michel issued from Pare's first and second marriages.
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