Charenton Hospice
The Charenton Hospice ( Hôpital Esquirol , formerly La Maison royale de [santé à] Charenton ) is a hospital establishment founded on May 10, 1645 by the Brothers of Mercy in Charenton-le-Pont in Saint-Maurice near Paris . The hospice was named after the pre-Carolingian monastery Charenton, which was closed in 1795. The facility became known for taking in not only the “poor sick” and epileptics, but also the insane , who were under state internment, that is to say those who were internally housed.
Among the famous inmates of the institution are the composer Jean-Joseph Mouret , the adventurer Henri Masers de Latude , the musician Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny , the caricaturist André Gill , the mathematician André Bloch , the poet Paul Verlaine and the Marquis de Sade .
See also
literature
- Dieter Jetter: Basics of the history of the madhouse. Darmstadt 1981, pp. 38-40.
- Georg Julius Popp: Brief descriptions of several insane institutions in Germany, Belgium, England, Scotland and France. JJ Palm and Ernst Enke, Erlangen 1844, pp. 131–141.
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean-Étienne Esquirol : Mémoire historique et statistique sur la Maison Royale de Charenton. In: ders .: Des maladies mentales. Paris 1838, Volume 2, pp. 204 and 208.
Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ′ 7 " N , 2 ° 25 ′ 47" E