The 'Annales de l'Institut Pasteur', 1887-2007: a glimpse into history.

摘要

The "Annales de l'Institut Pasteur" are now 120 years old. With this article, we are celebrating its presence on the shelves of our libraries throughout those years and paying tribute to the fact that the "Annales" were the first journal in France to specialize rn microbiology. Surprisingly, the "Annales" have never before been the subject of a historical investigation, and their past has been only briefly evoked by Pasteurians. In 1962, Albert Delaunay published a book which, for the first time, related the history of the Institut Pasteur. The passage he devoted to the "Annales" reads as follows: "As I write these words, the 'Annales de l'Institut Pasteur' are publishing their 100th volume. We might say that they most admirably recount events in the entire history of microbiology, but we feel justified in adding that, between the lines, they bear witness to the real history of the Institut Pasteur" . That sentence sums up what the "Annales" represented hi the eyes of Pasteurians, and what they continue to symbolize today: a collection which contains within its pages the entire panorama of the Pasteurian scientific era.