[The Ecole morphologique of Nancy: from Charles Morel to Paul Ancel at Pol Bouin].

The 1st October 1872, A. Thiers, french President de la Republique, gave order to transfer the Strasbourg Faculte de Medecine to Nancy. Then, Charles Morel was appointed professor for pathology and normal anatomy in Nancy where, in 1878, he got a professorship for histology. He introduced into this new Faculte the concept about cell theory and microscopic anatomy inherited from Strasbourg. He had a deep influence over A. Nicolas and A. Prenant who succeeded to him and founded the noteworthy morphological school of Nancy. Two of the most famous members of this school, P. Ancel and P. Bouin, left Nancy for Strasbourg, in 1919, when this city recovered its Faculte de Medecine. Their works about testis interstitial gland and ovary corpus luteum in Nancy were already famous. In Strasbourg, P. Bouin (histology) and P. Ancel (embryology) set up an original school of morphology. In short, Ch. Morel brought in Nancy the germs the fundamental concepts of modern morphology and a half a century later, P. Ancel and P. Bouin disciples of A. Nicolas and A. Prenant, carried back from Nancy to Strasbourg the offsprings of the impulses boosted by C. Morel.