“…Pierre Marie (1853-1940) ( Figure 2) was a prominent member of the French neurological world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is generally now considered one of the most outstanding of Charcot´s pupils, as well as his favourite, and most energetic apologist . 1,2,5,6 Marie´s contributions to Neurology and Internal Medicine include the description of the hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease,;hereditary cerebellar ataxia, known as Marie´s ataxia; a sporadic idiopathic cerebellar ataxia with late onset known as Marie-Foix-Alajouanine´s disease; acromegaly or "maladie de Marie"; and ankylosing spondylitis. 5,6 Pierre Marie lived in Paris, in the Paris VII ("7 éme Arrondissement"), at 76 Rue de Lille.…”