boira, plus il vivra" (He who drinks more will live more). Some of the patients to whom he prescribed this concoction were Guez de Balzac, who lived to the age of 70, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, who lived to the age of 75, and Daniel Huet, who lived to the age of 91. Charles himself lived to the age of 94. Footnotes Sources Astruc, Jean, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, P.G. Cavelier, 1767 Bernardin, Maurice Napoleon, Men and manners (French), 1900 Sneader, Walter, Drug discovery: a history, John Wiley and Sons, 2005, Thomas, Joseph, Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology, Volume 1, Tibayrenc, Michel, Encyclopedia of infectious diseases: Modern methodologies, Wiley-Liss, 2007, 16th-century French physicians 17th-century French physicians People from Moulins, Allier 1584 births 1678 deaths