Jean-François Eugène Robinet (24 April 1825, in

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– 3 November 1899, in

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), was a

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psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry. Psychiatrists are physicians who evaluate patients to determine whether their symptoms are the result of a physical illness, a combination of physical and mental ailments or strictly ...

and

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who advocated the

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. He was curator at the Carnavalet Museum and mayor of the

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Selected Works

Source: * ''Notice sur l’œuvre et la vie d’Auguste Comte'', (1860) Paris: Dunod * ''La Révolution française : Danton. Mémoire sur sa vie privée'' (1865) Paris: Chamerot et Lauwereyns * ''Le procès des Dantonistes'' (1879) Paris: E. Leroux * ''Danton Homme d’État'' (1889) Paris: Charavay Frères

References

French psychiatrists 19th-century French historians French curators 6th arrondissement of Paris 1825 births 1899 deaths People from Moselle (department) {{France-historian-stub