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Where did Claude Bernard study before beginning medical training in Paris?
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Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858.
Before beginning his medical training in Paris, Claude Bernard received his early education in the following settings:
- Local schooling: He studied Latin with a local priest.1
- Secondary school: He attended a Jesuit-conducted school in Villefranche, where he did not receive instruction in natural science.1
- Thoissey: He completed his secondary schooling at Thoissey at age 18, though he did not earn a diploma.1
- Apprenticeship: Following his schooling, he was apprenticed to an apothecary in a suburb of Lyon.1
After his apprenticeship ended, Bernard traveled to Paris with the intention of pursuing a career as a playwright, but he was advised by a literary critic to study medicine instead, leading him to enroll in the Faculty of Medicine.1