Claim: Sauveur François Morand became a demonstrator of surgery and was later appointed surgeon-major he also was a founding member of the Académie de chirurgie (Situated at 16 rue Bonaparte in the 6th arrondissement of Paris).
Evidence: In 1724 he became a demonstrator of surgery at the Jardin du Roi in Paris, followed by service as censeur royal and a surgeon at the Hôpital de la Charité (from 1730). He was later appointed surgeon-major of the Régiment des Gardes françaises (1739) and chief-surgeon at the Hôtel des Invalides. He was a founding member of the Académie de chirurgie (1731), and a member of numerous learned societies in Europe. The Académie nationale de chirurgie (National Academy of Surgery) was founded on 18 December 1731, under the name d'Académie royale de chirurgie by Georges Mareschal, first surgeon of Louis XV and by François La Peyronie, his successor. In 1935, it took the name of Académie de chirurgie, and adopted its current name in 1997. Situated at 16 rue Bonaparte in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the Académie nationale de médecine (National Academy of Medicine) was created in 1820 by king Louis XVIII at the urging of baron Antoine Portal.