[A Lumière's pharmacist: Marius Sestier (1861-1928)].
During the year 1896 Marius Sestier, the young pharmacist from the french city Lyon, becomes cinematograph operator for the Lumière brothers. Sent in Australia to use the recent invention, he must come back in France after only one year in the southern hemisphere. In Lyon, he remains in Lumière's service but becomes pharmacist again. He's employed as the responsible pharmacist of the new society created by Auguste Lumière: "la Société des Produits chimiques spéciaux "Brevets Lumière". This essay relates Sestier's biography and, concurrently, several drugs, foundation and development of those laboratories wich are well known as "Laboratoires Lumière".
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