Abstract
A detailed study of a cemetery attached to a provincial psychiatric hospital underscores its resemblance to military and Anglo-Saxon burial grounds. It is a sad reminder of the isolation and abandonment of many patients in French asylums up to the middle of the twentieth century.
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