Interview Dusoulier (2000) Rayward/CNRS

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Rayward: Please tell me about your family background and your education.
Dusoulier: Je suis née à Nice, en France de parents russes. I attended school in Nice.

J'ai étudié la pharmacologie à Marseille et obtenu ma thèse de pharmacologie à Paris. While in Paris, I also studied other related subjects such as biology, serology, and virology at Institut Pasteur.; I decided to study business administration because of my husband. He has a Ph.D. in political science and a diploma in engineering. I received a diploma in business administration when it began in France—during the first year, but I was not very good because law did not interest me much. I was selected because there were not many scientists studying that. There was only one pharmacologist and one veterinarian.
Rayward: Were you the only woman in the program?
Dusoulier: No, there were other women.
Rayward: When was this?
Dusoulier: Vers 1960.; I studied supplementary diplômes (diplomas) in the pharmaceutical industry in order to work in industry; I didn’t want to work in a pharmacy.

At the end of 1960, I was in a car accident, and stayed in bed for about a year. After that, the doctor said that I could not work standing up for at least three or four years, so I had to find a new job. I had been working in pharmacy doing biological analysis. I didn’t even know what other jobs I was qualified for that wouldn’t require standing.; Just before my accident, I had found a job at the Laboratoire de la Grange, a pharmaceutical laboratory for the control of drugs.
Modèle:Background color; Today, I don’t think the subject is that interesting, but, at the time, I was happy there. Then came the accident, which was just terrible.; My husband and I were in the car with our three children.
Modèle:Smallcaps: Were they hurt as well?
Modèle:Smallcaps: Not really. My husband was hurt; he was pinned in. I was thrown out of the car.; I decided to put an advertisement in Le Monde stating, “Doctor of pharmacy with these diplômes, knowing French, English, German, Russian, and Spanish, would like to find a job that doesn’t require standing.”