The contact structure of two meromorphic curves gives a factorization of their jacobian. Section 1: Introduction Let J(F,G) = J(X,Y )(F,G) be the jacobian of F = F (X,Y ) and G = G(X,Y ) with respect to X and Y , i.e., let J(F,G) = FXGY − FY GX where subscripts denote partial derivatives. Here, to begin with, F and G are plane curves, i.e., polynomials in X and Y over an algebraically closed gr...