François de Coulmiers
François de Coulmiers , born with Dijon the September 30th 1741 and dead the June 4th 1818, is a man of the church and politician French. Member about the Prémontrés, he was abbot of Notre-Dame of Abbécourt, representing clergy with the General states, appointed with the National Assembly and member of the legislative body under the Empire. He was director of the old people's home of Charenton.
As a director of the old people's home of Charenton, Coulmiers, which did not have a diploma in medicine, put an end to many practices now described as brutal, such as enfermement of the patients in cages, the use of strait jackets and baths cold. It substituted for it more advanced methods of treatment, in particular of the special diets, bleedings and purgings. After the fall of Napoleon and the restoration of the Bourbons, Coulmiers was dismissed, probably because of its revolutionary past.
It is especially known today for its attitude towards the Marquis de Sade. It got paper to him, authorized his wife with living in asylum and allowed him to make represent a part in which played the other residents.
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