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Le Dauphin and announced himself as
Robespierre—folie de grandeur! The children were
screaming with terror in the nursery, his wife
was prostrated with grief, his faithful dog lay
under the table growling with fear. My poor
friend suddenly got violent, I had to lock him
up in the bedroom where he smashed everything
and nearly succeeded in throwing us both through
the window. In the morning he was taken to
Doctor Blanche’s asylum in Passy. The famous
alienist suspected from the first general paralysis.
Two months later the diagnosis was clear, the
case was incurable. La Maison Blanche being
very expensive, I decided to have him removed
to the government asylum in Lund, a small
town in the South of Sweden. Doctor Blanche
was against it. He said it would be a risky
and expensive undertaking, that his temporary
lucidity was not to be trusted, that he must in
any case be accompanied by two capable warders.
I said the little money left must be saved for the
children, the journey must be undertaken in the
cheapest possible way, I was going to take him
to Sweden alone. When I signed the papers for
his release from the asylum, Doctor Blanche
renewed his warnings in writing but of course I
knew better. I drove him straight to Avenue
de Villiers. He was quite calm and reasonable
during dinner except that he tried to make love
to Mamsell Agata, surely the only chance she
had ever had. Two hours later we were locked
up in a first class compartment in the night
express for Cologne, there were no corridor trains
in those days. I happened to be the doctor of
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