he himself has made us note, he can work peacefully, without having to be preoccupied with teaching classes or engaging in other lucrative activities needed to earn a living.
We will add that he reads a passage from his copy of Faust every evening. This act of reading and the evocation of hell make him cry. Each time we ask for an explanation of these tears, he launches into a long series of reflections which are unclear (and repetitive), with recurring mentions of succubi, which are, according to G., demons with blue eyes.
He receives regular visits from his sister, sometimes accompanied by her husband.
A VISIT TO VAL-DE-GRÂCE
(L’Humanité, July 14, 1920)
Here, faces are remade. Just a glimpse at the two photos included in this article will allow you to judge the doctors’ work completed on the broken faces of our soldiers.
THE SOLEMN HOMAGE OF THE GRATEFUL HOMELAND
(Le Petit Parisien, November 12, 1920)
The coffin of the “Unknown Soldier,” placed on a cannon, preceded by the chariot carrying Gambetta’s heart, arrived at the Arc de Triomphe yesterday.
DID YOU SEE THE ECLIPSE?
(Le Petit Parisien, April 9, 1921)
The extreme clarity of the atmosphere allowed curious amateur astronomers to contemplate yesterday’s solar eclipse in all its beauty. The classic method? Good old cheap smoked glass.
PIERRE MEYER (interview, December 18, 2006, cont.). She felt a tremendous amount of compassion for her husband. His injury caused him to suffer for his entire life. He must have not been very easy to live with. Terrible temper. And that huge household she had to look after, six children! They were very close in age: the youngest, Ignace, was born in 1924. They named him after Mortaufs’s brother, who was killed in 1918. Such an atrocious war…
It was at that time, when Ignace was born, that they bought the house in Chatou. Marguerite had a personal fortune, and Mortaufs was earning a good amount of money, with all those courses he was teaching in various places.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
(Le Figaro, October 24, 1922)
The professor Christian Mortaufs
and Madame,
née Marguerite Janvier,
announce the birth
on October 18, 1922, of
BERNADETTE MARIE BAPTISTINE
The baptism will take place
on Tuesday at 10 o’clock in the morning
at the Church of Saint-Philippe-du-Roule
22, Rue d’Artois, Paris, 8th arr.
—
Claude Duvivier
lawyer at the Paris Bar,
and his wife Nicole,
née Gorenstein,
have the joy of announcing
the birth of their daughter
MIREILLE ANNE
on October 17, 1922
9, Rue de Médicis, Paris, 6th arr.
THE CLIMB TO THE PANTHÉON
(Le Petit Parisien, November 23, 1924)
The final arrangements for the ceremony marking the transfer of Jean Jaurès’s ashes to the Panthéon began yesterday and were completed that very night. This morning, everything will be ready.
LAWS OF POPULATION FLUCTUATION OF SEVERAL COEXISTING SPECIES IN THE SAME AREA
BY V. VOLTERRA
(French Association for the Advancement of the Sciences, Lyon, 1926)
Let there be two species (of animals, for example). The first gets its food from its natural habitat, and, if it were alone, would grow exponentially. The second does not find food in its natural habitat, and, if it were alone, would decrease exponentially. If the second species were to eat the first, what would happen? […] The fluctuations of the number of individuals of each species are thus periodic. […]
Let us suppose some animals in each species are destroyed (by fishing). […] We see that, when the intensity of fishing grows, the number of individuals in the first species grows and the number in the second decreases, which is to say that fishing, as verified by statistics from the Adriatic, has a favorable effect before, during, and after the war.
ELECTROCUTED! A SCIENTIFIC KILLING…
(L’Humanité, special edition, August 23, 1927)
Boston, August 23, 12:30 a.m. local time. How to burn a man in an electric chair.
Madeiros was put in the chair at 12:02. He died at 12:09. Sacco was placed in the electric chair at 12:11. He died at 12:19. Vanzetti was put in the chair at 12:20. He died at 12:26.
This is not a judicial error. It is an “example.”
For the proletariat, it’s an open declaration of war!
THE G. CASE
BY J. MEYERBEER, PSYCHIATRIC DOCTOR, SAINT-MAURICE HOSPITAL
(French Review of Psychiatric Medicine, Vol. 11, 1930)
Twelve years later, we return to the case of G., a former polytechnician who injured his head in combat, and who was hospitalized after having murdered his aunt, his sister, and his uncle. We refer back to our article in the Gaz. Assoc. Psy. Doc. Fr. (Vol. 28, 1920).
As we then reported, G. is a calm patient who is well-liked by the staff. In this short note, we revisit his relations with the outside world.
FAMILY SITUATION
G.’s oldest sister—who during the first few years visited him regularly and brought him newspapers, and, depending on the season, fruit, cakes, or chocolate—stopped visiting when she gave birth to a baby girl. Apart from the fact that the Saint-Maurice Hospital is not a place for a child, G.’s brother-in-law, a lawyer, thought that her visits could be dangerous for the little girl and thus for her mother as well. She has therefore replaced the visits with regular written correspondence. G. kindly replies to all of her letters.
CURRENT EVENTS
Apart from the epistolary exchanges with his sister,
