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XVIII
LA SALPÊTRIÈRE
I seldom failed to attend Professor Charcot’s
famous Leçons du Mardi in the Salpêtrière,
just then chiefly devoted to his grande hystérie
and to hypnotism. The huge amphitheatre was
filled to the last place with a multicoloured
audience drawn from tout Paris, authors, journalists,
leading actors and actresses, fashionable
demi-mondaines, all full of morbid curiosity to witness
the startling phenomena of hypnotism almost
forgotten since the days of Mesmer and Braid.
It was during one of these lectures that I became
acquainted with Guy de Maupassant then already
famous for his Boule de Suif and his unforgettable
Maison Tellier. We used to have endless talks
on hypnotism and all sorts of mental troubles,
he never tired of trying to draw from me what
little I knew on these subjects. He also wanted
to know everything about insanity, he was
collecting just then materials for his terrible book
‘Le Horla,’ a faithful picture of his own tragic
future. He even accompanied me once on a
visit to Professor Bernheim’s clinic in Nancy
which opened my eyes to the fallacies of the
Salpêtrière school in regard to hypnotism. I
also stayed as his guest for a couple of days on
board his yacht. I well remember our sitting
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