From our special correspondent in Évreux (Eure)
There was Georges, who took himself for
"the king of France"
, interned after having killed a police officer guilty, in his eyes, of
"crime of lèse-majesté"
.
Adrien,
"entered the asylum in 1911, died for France in 1920"
, as it is engraved on his tombstone.
Or even Dr. Roger Got, psychiatrist, who had asked, in 1957, to be buried among his patients.
But this “field of rest”, created in 1866 behind the Navarre hospital in Évreux, in the Eure region, is undoubtedly experiencing its last moments of tranquility.
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Less than a kilometer away, backhoes are activated: soon, the "madman's cemetery", as everyone calls it here, should disappear under the embankments of a four-lane, the future southwest deviation of 'Évreux.
Even if the prefecture promises that
"everything will be done with respect for funeral rights".
Nestled in the heart of the wood adjacent to the New Navarre Hospital, it gently sloped over 2,700 m2.
At the entrance, the keeper's little lodge was vandalized.
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