FRANCE PALMES ACADÉMIQUES - PUBLIC EDUCATION. Set including : - Silver and enamel "chevalier d'instruction publique" star (small chips). Boar's head hallmark. - Brevet d'officier d'académie in the name of Émile NICOLAS, member of the Nancy Biology Society (1903). - 9-page illustrated pamphlet "le microscope de Stanislas" by Émile NICOLAS. - Pen drawing of the French Republic signed g. NICOLAS "Tout par le savoir et par le droit pour l'humanité". 21 x 14 cm Biography : Émile Nicolas (1871-1940) was a French journalist, art critic and botanist, a founding member of the École de Nancy and a member of the steering committee of the Alliance provinciale des industries d'art.