Jules-Albert Baronnet (1852–1914), Amable-Clovis Crété (1875–1934) Gabriel Jacques (1860–1914), Socrate Lalou (1875–1930), Léon Victor Revertégat (1860–1938) et Jean-Maurice Sardain (1876–1961) : des médecins directeurs ou adjoints à la maison de santé de Suresnes fondée par Gustave Bouchereau (1835–1900), Gustave Lolliot (1835–1882) et Valentin Magnan (1833–1916) en 1875

Abstract

In 1875, Gustave Bouchereau (1835–1900), Gustave Lolliot (1835–1882) and Valentin Magnan (1833–1916) opened a private nursing home for psychiatric patients (insane or not) in Suresnes, known as “le Château de Suresnes” (1875). This establishment took care of patients declared insane according to the terms of the law of 1838. G. Lolliot was the first medical director. In 1882, Honoré Saury (1854–1924) succeeded him. His physician assistant was Léon Victor Revertégat (1860–1938), a former intern of the Seine asylums (1894). This latter became in turn the medical director in 1893–94. Later, he was the founder of a private nursing home in Sannois (Val d’Oise). One of his patients was the painter Maurice Utrillo (1883–1955); he was hospitalized between 1912 and 1914 over there. L. Revertégat was a member of the Société Médico-Psychologique and of the Société clinique de médecine mentale respectively in 1906 and 1908. Afterwards, while V. Magnan was still alive, other doctors followed suite: Gabriel Stanislas Jacques (1860–1914), Socrate Lalou (1875–1930), Jules-Albert Baronnet (1852–1936), Jean-Maurice Sardain (1876–1961) and Aimable-Clovis Crété (1875–1934). Among them, G. Jacques and J.-M Sardain were members of the mental medicine society in 1910. G. Jacques died in his 50th year while he was medical director. S. Lalou was more interested in experimental research rather than clinical study; he returned to his native country (Romania) where he was appointed professor of pharmacology (Bucarest). After working in a private nursing home for the psychiatric ill in Fontenay-sous-Bois, A.-C. Crété. worked in that of Suresnes and finished his career in a sanatorium in Guervenan (Bretagne) which completed the social hygiene and anti-tuberculosis dispensaries. J.-A. Baronnet, L.-V. Revertégat et J.-M. Sardain were doctors who did not seem to particularly appreciate the satisfaction brought by the psychiatry specialty and later became dentists; most probably for financial reasons.