Sophie: Pasteur

The erasure of Sophie Pasteur is a classic case of 19th-century gendered historiography. Biographers of Louis Pasteur—most notably René Vallery-Radot, his son-in-law—wrote the official hagiography. In that version, Sophie appears only as a silent, supportive wife who served tea and prayed. The messy reality of her intellectual and logistical contributions was scrubbed clean.

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Actress * Uniformes pour Femmes Matûres. Video. 2013. * Max Casanova Studio. TV Series. 2012. 2 episodes. www.imdb.com The erasure of Sophie Pasteur is a classic