[Parisian psychiatric institutions under the Empire, as seen by a German visitor]

The author is setting out a book printed at Bayreuth in 1809 and stating a visit of parisian hospitals between 1806 and 1808 by the German botanist and medic August Friedrich Schweigger. The only part of that relation translated in French is concerning mental hospitals; it gives an out of ordinary look upon health cares in France during the 1st Empire.