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The madwomen of Paris : a novel

Epstein, Jennifer Cody, author

2024

Overview

\"After being dragged into the Salpetriere asylum screaming, covered in blood, and suffering from amnesia, Josephine is diagnosed with what the nineteenth-century Parisian press has dubbed 'the epidemic of the age': hysteria. It's a disease so uniquely baffling that Jean-Martin Charcot, the Salpetriere's acclaimed director, devotes popular lectures to it, using hypnosis to elicit fits and fantastical symptoms in front of rapt audiences. Young, charismatic, and highly susceptible to this entrancement, Josephine quickly becomes a favorite of the powerful doctor and the Parisian public alike. But her true ally at the Salpetriere is Laure, a lonely ward attendant. As their friendship blossoms into something more, the two women find comfort and even joy together despite their bleak surroundings. Soon, Josephine's memory returns, and with it images of a gruesome crime she's convinced she's committed. Ensnared in Charcot's hypnotic web, she starts spiraling into seeming insanity, prompting a terrified Laure to plot their escape together. First, though, Laure must solve a grim mystery: Who, really, is the girl she's grown to love? Is Josephine a madwoman...\"--Publisher.

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Subject: Asylums Fiction. / Female friendship Fiction. / Hysteria (Social psychology) / Mental illness Treatment Fiction. / Psychiatrists France Fiction. / Women France Fiction. / France History 19th century Fiction.
• ISBN: 9780593158029, 0593158024

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3605.P646 M33 2024	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE