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Bron. The mystery of the death of Maupassant’s brother, buried in Bron

“We are going through a terrible crisis. Hervé must be locked up immediately in the Bron asylum near Lyon. […] All the money for my novel goes and will go to Hervé’s disease ”, writes the author of Nice friend to his father. The psychiatric hospital, built in 1876, was considered at the time to be one of the most modern in Europe.

On August 12, 1889, the chief physician made a final diagnosis: “The patient is suffering from general paralysis characterized by delirium of …

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