THE NORMAL SUPERIOR SCHOOL PROVIDED FUTURE PROFESSORS WITH A RIGOROUS EDUCATION YOU GOT YOUR BACHELOR OF LETTERS DEGREE YOU WANT A DEGREE IN SCIENCE AS WELL AND YOU'RE TEACHING AT THE SAME TIME SO FIRST LOUIS HAD TO STUDY AT THE COLLÈGE ROYAL OF BESANÇON FRANCE THERE HE BECAME FRIENDS WITH CHARLES CHAPPUIS A FELLOW STUDENT TOGETHER THEY WOULD TALK ABOUT PHILOSOPHY I KNOW IT'S A BIT STRANGE BUT SCIENCE IS WHAT I'M REALLY INTERESTED IN AND IF I WANT TO BE A PROFESSOR IT'S INCREDIBLE LOUIS I'LL BE A PROFESSOR OF SCIENCE I'LL STUDY CHEMISTRY AT THE NORMAL SUPERIOR SCHOOL
massa IN 1842 LOUIS PASSED THE SCHOOL'S ENTRANCE EXAM BUT WASN'T HAPPY WITH HIS SCORE IN 1843 HE PASSED THE TEST WITH A HIGH RANKING AND ARRIVED IN PARIS TO BEGIN HIS STUDIES AT THE NORMAL SUPERIOR SCHOOL WITHOUT A DOUBT THE SUBJECT HE WAS MOST PASSIONATE ABOUT WAS CHEMISTRY I'M BURNING SOME BONES TO EXTRACT PHOSPHORUS I JUST WANTED TO PRACTICE WHAT WE HAVE BEEN LEARNING IN CLASS ARE YOU RUNNING EXPERIMENTS ON YOUR OWN MR PASTEUR OH PROFESSOR DUMAS SINCE YOU HAVE SUCH AN INTEREST IN CHEMISTRY I MIGHT HAVE A JOB FOR YOU IN MY LAB
HELPING MY CHEMICAL PREPARER MR BARRUEL HONESTLY I DON'T WANT TO SPEND THE REST OF MY LIFE IN A LAB I SEE THAT PROFESSOR DUMAS WAS RIGHT MR PASTEUR YOU DO GREAT WORK IN THE LABORATORY THANK YOU SOON I'LL TAKE MY EXAMS GET MY DEGREE AND BECOME A PROFESSOR BUT DON'T FORGET THE PREPARATION OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES IS VERY IMPORTANT THE EXPERIMENTS SUCCESS DEPENDS ON OUR EXPERTISE YOU HAVE A TALENT FOR THIS YOUNG MAN A MISTAKE COULD BE FATAL.AND LOTS OF CURIOSITY A HUNGER TO LEARN DON'T RULE OUT THE POSSIBILITY OF RESEARCH AS A CAREER YET
WELL PASTEUR NOW THAT YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY PASSED YOUR EXAMS 20 s IT'S TIME TO MAKE A DECISION ABOUT YOUR FUTURE YOU COULD LEAVE HERE AND BEGIN WORKING AS A PROFESSOR YOU KNOW THAT BIOT DUMAS AND I HAVE SOME INFLUENCE OVER THE FRENCH MINISTRY WE COULD ARRANGE FOR YOU TO LIVE IN PARIS OR YOU COULD STAY AND JOIN MY LAB YOU HAVE A KNACK FOR CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS THAT MUST NOT GO TO WASTE THAT WOULD BE FANTASTIC MR BALARD
