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Who advised Claude Bernard to study medicine rather than become 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 study medicine instead of pursuing a career as a playwright. In 1834, after Bernard traveled to Paris with a manuscript for his historical drama Arthur de Bretagne, Girardin reviewed the work and encouraged him to shift his focus toward the medical field.1