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| | Alphonse Laveran - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was born in Paris on June 18, 1845 in the house which was formerly No. 19 rue de l'Est but later became, when this district was rebuilt, an hotel at No. 125, Boulevard St. Michel. |
 | | His father, Dr. Louis Théodore Laveran, was an army doctor and a Professor at the École de Val-de-Grâce, his mother, née Guénard de la Tour, was the daughter and granddaughter of high-ranking army commanders. |
 | | Alphonse, after completing his education in Paris at the Collège Saint Baube and later at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, wished to follow his father's profession and in 1863 he applied to the Public Health School at Strasbourg, was admitted there and attended the courses for four years. |
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