There are plenty of places where it is recorded that Jacques Arago spent some time in the mental hospital run by Esprit Blanche and his wife in Montparnasse. That, however, is as far as the information goes. We do not know why he was consigned to the hospital, when this happened or how long he remained incarcerated. But we do, al least, have his own account of the experience.
In 1932 Jacques Arago wrote an account of his time in the mental hospital of Dr Esprit Blanche for the short lived journal Paris ou le Livre des Cent-et-Un (v.4, 197 – 226,). The original text reproduced hereis followed by an English translation
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