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Who advised Claude Bernard to study medicine instead of becoming a playwright?
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Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858.
The literary critic Saint-Marc Girardin advised Claude Bernard to pursue a career in medicine rather than playwriting after reading his historical drama, Arthur de Bretagne.1