Autograph postcard signed

Paris, 1910.

92 x 110 mm. "Ne vous désolez pas de n'avoir pu accueillir ce que vous offrait Jean D[. . . ]. Ce dernier est un ancien camarade mais j'ignore s'il a du talent ou non et, en tous cas, ne vous croyez aucunement obligé de tenir compte de ma recommendation à son sujet . . ." [Don't be sorry for not being able to accept what Jean D[. . .] offered you. The latter is an old friend but I don't know if he has talent or not and, in any case, don't feel in any way obliged to take into account my recommendation about it . . .].

Léon Charles Albert Calmette (12 July 1863 - 29 October 1933) was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute. He discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, an attenuated form of Mycobacterium bovis used in the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis. He also developed the first antivenom for snake venom, the Calmette's serum (Wikipedia).

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