Jean-Martin Charcot was born in Paris, France, late in 1825. Although he was a nineteenth century scientist, his influence carried on into the next century, especially in the work of some of his ...

In September 1891, Émile Zola visited the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes and returned again in August of the following year to conduct research for a novel. His interviews with the pilgrims and the ...

City of Incurable Women (Bellevue, Feb.) imagines the inner lives of the young female “hysterics” who were confined at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris in the late 19th century. Your dedication reads ...