[Fragments of a correspondence between the Parisian pharmacist Émile Vial and the Dutch painter Johan-Barthold Jongkind]. / Fragments d'une correspondance entre le pharmacien parisien Émile Vial et le peintre néerlandais Johan-Barthold Jongkind.

We study a series of exchanged original letters between the Parisian pharmacist art lover Émile Vial (1833-1917) and the Dutch painter Johan-Barthold Jongkind (1819 - 1891) from april 13th, 1876 till February 1th, 1887.

[Of the pharmacy of Marine to the industrial pharmacy: a precursor of nanomedicines, André Lancien (1885-1938)]. / De la pharmacie de Marine à la pharmacie industrielle: un precurseur des nanomédicaments, André Lancien (1885-1938).

After a biographic reminder on André Lancien, pharmacist of Marine, we describe her activities of research. The first ones concern the radium and the uranic by-products, but the main part concerns the development of a process of obtaining by electric way of stable colloidal solutions to very fine metallic or metalloïdic particles. These colloids were applied to the therapeutics in diverse domains, prefiguring before the term existed what we call now nanomedicine.

[A pharmacist specialist in Bordeaux at the end of XIXth century, Marie, Victor Julien Lechaux (1840-1900)]. / Un pharmacien spécialiste à Bordeaux au XIXe siècle, Marie Victor Julien Lechaux (1840-1900).

Pharmacist in Bordeaux at the end of XIXth century, Mario Lechaux transformed his pharmacy into a commercial pharmacy, what brough him to create diverse patent medicines a wide distribution of which he assured by all the usual means of advertising.

[A pharmacist designer and manufacturer of veterinarian patent medicines, Paul Méré, de Chantilly]. / Un pharmacien créateur et fabricant de spécialités vétérinaires, Paul Méré, de Chantilly.

In the last quarter of the 19th century, Paul Méré, pharmacist in Chantilly (Oise), worked out and marketed a range of veterinarian medicines mainly intended for horses. He pursued his activity in Orleans (Loiret), giving her a big extension with export of his patents medicines in numerous foreign countries, this company having remained up to the Second World War.

[The symbol of the three reigns of nature: to look further into its significance symbolic system]. / Le symbole des trois règnes de la nature. Pour en approfondir la signification symbolique.

Emblem chosen by the Parisian apothecaries, the symbol of the Palm tree, the Snake and Rocks reminds that the pharmaceutical skills concern three reigns of the nature from which arise the constituents of medicines. The hypothesis according to which Nicolas Houel was at the origin of this emblem when he was at the head of the Parisian community in 1556 is advanced, whereas an extension of its symbolic reach is looked for. The analysis of the symbolic senses associated with the snake, with the palm tree and with the rocks directs to a religious interpretation of the symbol in a Christian prospect.

[A pharmacist art lover, Charles-Honoré Thévenot]. / Un pharmacien amateur d'art Charles Honoré Thévenot.

Set up in Dijon (Côte-d'Or), the pharmacist Charles-Honoré Thévenot (1812-1894) is mainly known as being the inventor of an industrial process for manufacturing and filling the medicamentous capsules. It was also a great art lover which had joined together an important collection of engravings and drawings. It was bequeathed to the town of Dijon and now constitues one of the jewels of its Museum of Fine Arts.

[Hugues Delmas (1903-1945), chemist, artist and deportation victim]. / Hugues Delmas (1903-1945) pharmacien, artiste, et victime de la déportation.

Biographic evocation of a chemist and artist whose life and work were dramatically breaked off during World War II and whose days were over in the nazi extermination camps.

[A pharmaceutical course of instruction in Bordeaux in the end of nineteenth century]. / Un stage de pharmacie à Bordeaux à la fin du XIXe siècle.

The witness of a former chemist's assistant and the study of his laboratory record allow to evaluate the officinal practical training received by the students of pharmacy at the end of nineteenth century in Bordeaux before to enter upon university education.

[Pharmacists as pioneers in porcelain production: what the service, Flora Danica owe to the Bordeaux's apothecary Marc-Hilaire Vilaris]. / Pharmaciens pionniers de la production de porcelaine: ce que le service Flora Danica doit à l' apothicaire bordelais Marc-Hilaire Vilaris.

In 1766, The Bordeaux's apothecary Marc-Hilaire Vilaris (1719-1792) identified with certainty a kaolin's deposit at Saint-Yrieix, in the country of Limousin, allowing so the porcelain manufacture in France and the development of a china clay's and porcelain's dough trade. Archives documents give evidence of regularly supplies of limousin's raw materials by the pharmacist Frantz Heinrich Müller (1732-1820), Director of the Royal china's Manufactury of Denmark, some time before production of the famous table service Flora Danica.

[The pharmacist Léopold Mathet and the photography]. / Le pharmacien Léopold Mathet et la photographie.

From 1872 and during half-century , the pharmacist Léopold Mathet (1850-1922) was interested in theoretical and practical faces of photography whose he was a talented popularizer by means of his many books and publications. He specially got enthusiastic over colour photography by additive trichromy and he made sensitized plates including polychromatic net which, as early as 1904, he achieved successfully fine colour photographs.

[Pro laurea magistrali: the masterpiece of a norman apothecary of XVIIIth century]. / Pro laurea Magistrali: le chef-d'oeuvre d'un apothicaire normand du XVIIIe siècle.

The program of the terminal practical test (masterpiece) performed in 1777 by André Baston in Rouen to obtain apothecary's mastership is reproduced and commented.