Route de Versalles. Le Sanatorium. Pavillon de la Direction

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September 1901 Santiago Rusinol published in Pèl & Ploma magazine story entitled «La casa del silencio». It began like this: "There, on the edge of the village of Boulogne, on one side of a long and lonely road to Versailles, between gardens, trees, ferns, the beds of vegetables and flowers a garden greenhouses pain. Over the wall at the end of the tree-lined hanging a big sign, rising above the branches, on which is written: "House of the healing of nervous diseases." Under the guise of a large gate, behind them - cold, symmetrical house as health factory, with a smooth, clean, new, polished thin walls and gilded bars. Behind bars - pieces patients how to stay in a luxurious cage ".Santyago Rusinol, Catalan postimpressionist artist, poet, novelist, playwright, being treated for addiction to morphine in the resort of Boulogne-sur-Seine Dr. Paul Soller. This doctor, a student of Professor Charcot was an eminent specialist in the field of psychiatry.