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Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858.
Claude Bernard enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine in Paris during the winter of 1834, following the advice of the literary critic Saint-Marc Girardin, who had reviewed his play Arthur de Bretagne and encouraged him to pursue a career in medicine instead of playwriting.1