[When Paul Bourget frequented the "Infirmerie spéciale"].

Paul Bourget, the famous novelist, in his times, met Ernest Dupré, the titular of the professorship for psychiatry and consultant in the "Infirmerie spéciale" and became a frequenter of many psychiatric facilities, among them the "Infirmerie spéciale". Accordingly we study the relations between Belles-Lettres and psychiatric literature.