The Wrong Head
Mike Jay: Am I Napoleon?, 21 May 2015
The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon: Towards a Political History of Madness
by Laure Murat, translated by Deke Dusinberre.
Chicago, 288 pp., £31.50, October 2014,978 0 226 02573 5 Show More
by Laure Murat, translated by Deke Dusinberre.
Chicago, 288 pp., £31.50, October 2014,
“... with the events,’ Esquirol claimed in Maladies mentales. He never delivered on the promise, but Laure Murat takes it as the starting point for her enthralling study of the correspondences between politics and madness in 19th-century France. In drawing on patient records in the archives of the Paris asylums – Bicêtre, Salpêtrière, Sainte-Anne and ... ”
