[Samuel Pozzi (1846-1918), flamboyant surgeon of la Belle Epoque]

Samuel Pozzi was an outstanding in the Paris of nineteenth century, highly gifted and successful, but his real personality remains, after one hundred years, filled with mystery. He was born in the heart of Dordogne, Bergerac, in a family of Huguenots who had come from Geneva. After his first studies in Pau and Bordeaux, he came to Paris, while barely eighteen years old to reach the heights of the medical world of his time. Beginning as "Interne" then "Chirurgien des hôpitaux", "professeur agrégé", head Physician at Hôpital Broca and, finally he was appointed Professor to the newly created Chair of Clinical Gynecology. He gained fame as a master of gynecological surgery but kept, during his career, a keen interest for all fields of surgery, including organ transplantation.