Place Marchal

Charles-JacobMarchal, known as de Calvi, was born in Calvi on July 4, 1815. Trained as a physician, he studied at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris.

He became Professor of Hygiene at the same faculty, and also held the chair of Anatomy and Physiology at the Val-de-Grâce military hospital. In 1867, he founded La Tribune médicale, a journal in which he published numerous scientific works.

Among his most notable publications are:

-Études sur les eaux thermales de Corse(1855),

-Recherches sur les accidents diabétiques et essai d'une théorie générale du diabète (1864),

as well as the work that earned him fame far beyond medical circles:Physiologie de l'homme, à l'usage des gens du monde (1841).

Charles-Jacob Marchal died in Paris on January 27, 1873. He is buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery.