[A pharmacist art lover, Charles-Honoré Thévenot].
Set up in Dijon (Côte-d'Or), the pharmacist Charles-Honoré Thévenot (1812-1894) is mainly known as being the inventor of an industrial process for manufacturing and filling the medicamentous capsules. It was also a great art lover which had joined together an important collection of engravings and drawings. It was bequeathed to the town of Dijon and now constitues one of the jewels of its Museum of Fine Arts.
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