Jean-Baptiste Jupille's monument
This bronze monument of young boy, Jean-Baptiste Jupille, struggling against a rabid dog can be seen in the garden of the Institut Pasteur in Paris1. The statue is a work by Emile-Louis Truffot started in 1886. Jupille, a young sheperd, was the second person ever inoculated by Louis Pasteur against rabies in July 1885, after Alsatian boy Joseph Meister. In later years, both Jupille and Meister worked at the Institut Pasteur.
- Photo by Rosa Longo (February 2012), courtesy of the Institut Pasteur.
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I think that this bronze statue represents 15-year old Jean-Baptiste Jupille, Pasteur’s second patient with rabies (see a photograph of M. Jupille standing next to this statue on Wikipédia), rather than 9-year old Joseph Meister.
You are right! Fixed… Thank you very much!