[The "prince of surgery," Antoine Jobert de Lamballe (1799-1867) and the first radical cure of vesico-vaginal fistulae with his method of cystoplasty].

Jobert de Lamballe, consultant-physician of Louis-Philippe, first surgeon of Napoleon III, Professor of Clinic Surgery, President of the Academy of medicine and member of the Institute, was a very inventive research worker and provided to the surgical technique of his time an essential contribution to the area of intestinal, urologic, gynecologic and plastic surgery. He died, in 1867, by general paresis.