Noël Pascal
French doctor (b. 1814 in Aubignosc; d. May 1889 in Paris, who attended the composer's niece Tatyana Davydova when her son Georges-Leon (Georgy) was born in Paris in 1883.
Pascal became a teacher in his home village of Aubignosc, but he was forced to flee as result of his open opposition to the 1851 coup d'état led by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (later Napoleon III). Taking refuge in Nice, then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia, he was later pardoned as part of a general amnesty, and he returned to France to take up medicine [1].
From the 1860s he was editor-in-chief of the journal Mouvement Médical, and an author of medical studies. In later life, Pascal specialised in hydrotherapy, helping to found the Institut hydrothérapique de Passy in Paris in 1874.
He was also a recipient of the Russian Order of Saint Stanislaus, and of the Order of the Medjidie from the Ottoman Empire [2].
Correspondence with Tchaikovsky
One letter from Tchaikovsky to Noël Pascal has survived, dating from 1883, and has been translated into English on this website:
- Letter 2210 – late January/early February 1883, from Paris
External Links
Notes and References
- ↑ See https://1851.fr/hommes/noel_pascal/ and https://1851.fr/hommes/pascal/ (accessed 19 August 2023).
- ↑ See his obituary in La France Médicale (9 May 1889), p. 624.
