[Philippe Pinel (1745-1826) a tonsured cleric].

Philippe Pinel received an excellent education from the Fathers of the Christian Doctrine whose recently discovered library is here analyzed. New facts about his first teacher, Jean-Pierre Gorsse, indicate that he, too, was a student of the Doctrinaires and that a benefice requiring the tonsure passed to Pinel when Gorsse married in 1759.