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““Pasteur had received an honorary degree from the University of Bonn in 1868, but returned it later during the height of French-German tension. “Today this parchment is hateful to me,” Pasteur wrote to the university dean, “and it offends me to see my name, which you have decorated with the qualification virum clarissimum, placed under the auspices of a name that will henceforth be loathed by my country, that of Guillermus Rex.””

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