[The birth of two classes of pharmacists, aborted in 1825, but accomplished in 1854]

The "21st ger minal year-11 law", organized two different pathways to access to the diploma of pharmacist, the first one after three years in a specific school and three years of practice in a pharmacy, the second one needing only eight years of practice in a pharmacy, theoretically the examinations should have been similar for both ways. Anyway, this law did not propose any denomination to distinguish between these two kinds of pharmacists. On February 14th 1825, a project was set up: it decided to suppress the medical juries and proposed the creation of so-called secondary schools in charge of the formation of health officers and of second-class pharmacists. It was the first time an official text used the terms first-class and second-class pharmacists. This project was submitted to many criticisms and was never applied. One had to wait until 1854 to see the medical juries suppressed and the two classes of pharmacists created.