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formalities for sending Geneviève home in charge of a
nurse I succeeded with great difficulty in putting
them in a cab to drive to Gare d’Orléans to catch
the next train. The thought of the two old
peasants kept me awake the whole night. How
was I to keep my promise? I knew only too
well that I was just then the most unsuitable of
all men to speak to Charcot about their daughter,
I knew equally well that she would never consent
to leave the Salpêtrière and return to her humble
old home of her own free will. I could see only
one solution, to conquer that will of hers and
replace it by my own will. I knew Geneviève
well as an excellent somnambulist. She had
been trained by others and by myself to carry
out post-hypnotic suggestions to be transformed
into act with the fatality of a falling stone, with
an almost astronomic punctuality and amnesia
i.e. complete ignorance in her waking state of
what she had been told to do. I applied to the
chef de clinique to continue my experiments with
Geneviève in telepathy, just then the order of the
day. He was himself keenly interested in the
subject, offered me to work undisturbed in his
own cabinet for an hour every afternoon and
wished me good luck. I had told him a lie. The
very first day I suggested to Geneviève under
deep hypnosis to stay in bed the following
Tuesday instead of going to the amphitheatre, to
dislike her life in the Salpêtrière and to wish to
return to her parents. For a week I repeated
daily these suggestions to her with no apparent
result. The following week she was absent and
much missed during the Tuesday performance in
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