Charenton Asylum

Charenton Asylum was originally made as a Lunatic Asylum, built for those with mental illnesses. It was founded in 1645 by the Frères de la Charité or Brothers of Charity in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, now Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne, France.

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Most notably, Charenton housed Hugo de la Liberté I, oldest brother of the third Head Reopener of France, Racine de la Liberté.

Hugo de la Liberté I
Hugo de la Liberté I was admitted to Charenton Asylum on March 5th, 1772 for the murder of Charlotte Pierre de la Liberté after claiming to have been told by an audio-related hallucination named Agnes and another which remained nameless.

Hugo claimed to have seen Agnes many times, and that she told him to many things such as murdering Charlotte, mutilating animals, hitting nurses and doctors, as well as other things. Hugo claimed that the first time he saw Agnes was when he was on his fourth week in the Asylum, and that she resembled a nurse who worked there.

The nameless hallucination was a voice which informed Hugo was peculiar things, such as his socks being made out of plastic, or that the Notre-Dame de Paris was discovered by Christopher Columbus. Due to this hallucination, Hugo had extremely false views on the world and how it came to form, even to the point where he believed that he was made out of dandelion stems.