Doctor Théophile Peyron was a French naval doctor, who ran the mental hospital of
Saint-Paul-de Mausole in a former monastery just outside
Saint Rémy de Provence
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.
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2,100 artworks ...
was one of his patients.
[See Naifeh, Steven; Smith, Gregory White. Van Gogh: The Life. Profile Books, 2011. ]
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19th-century French physicians
French psychiatrists
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