In an edict issued on July 30On [[Chronology|November 18, 18631953]], Napoleon III "state approved" that an asylum be established in Paris for the treatment of mental illness. This hospital was built on a plot of land that was formerly a farm called Saint[[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]] held his first [[public]] [[seminar]] at [[Sainte-Anne, which was in a remote district, but provided fortyHospital]] --four acres that would allow for soon after the construction establishment of a model facility based on the ideas of Jean-Étienne Esquirol and able to accommodate up to 500 patients of both sexes''[[Société Française de Psychanalyse]]'' ([[SFP]]).The program set out by the committee established by Baron Haussmann included plans for a...
