HIS
PERSONNALIT
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To
speak about its character, it appeared judicious to to me to take again
to the remarks of Mister Senior LEBLANC and Mr ETTORI. Judge rather:
"Its loss
is painful for Faculty but its scientific notoriety was such, its splendid
organization of so rare man of laboratory, the questions which it tackled as of
his youth so important and the solutions that it brought there so new and so
sure, that it is the very whole French science which is struck by this death.
The
character of the man, the value and the high authority of the professor, his
scientific probity, its good direction penetrating and relentless, mixed to
model a personality considerable and attaching. The sometimes malicious
smoothness of its judgement, the distinction of its spirit, a wide general
culture and solid made of it a talker skilful, captivating, with the thoughts
impressed of an often ironic philosophy and sometimes also, moderated of a
worrying lassitude.
If he were
not very communicative man, of rigid principles, he had in addition the deep
respect of the professional obligations and the most feeling of the duty. This
man whom one felt enough skeptic, a little disillusioned, gave also the
certainty which it brought a scrupulous attention to his teaching. He realized
certainly, as well in the teaching direction as in that of the scientific value,
the perfect professor. The original plan of its course, the experimental
character that it was always due to him to preserve, its concern pushed to the
extreme to constantly put it at the current the most modern research, but by
drawing aside the dubious one with authority, were worth to him the most
respectful regard, the most unanimous consideration of his/her collaborators and
its pupils.
It leaves
in Faculty where it taught during 17 years the memory of an eminent scientist,
of a professor of a great modesty and a very high conscience. Its work is worth
to him the unanimous consideration of the chemists of the whole world ".