place
La Salpêtrière
the Salpêtrière
also: Salpêtrière
A large Paris hospital on the Left Bank, by Rilke's time a sprawling asylum and neurological clinic (the hospital of Charcot). Malte is sent there for electrical treatment and sits through its public consulting-hours among the cast-off.
Reading notes
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §100 Salpêtrière
A vast Paris hospital on the Left Bank, in Rilke's day the great asylum and neurological clinic associated with Charcot; Malte is sent to its crowded out-patient hours for electrical treatment.