{"id":116780,"date":"2020-06-09T11:31:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T09:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/?p=116780"},"modified":"2020-06-09T11:31:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T09:31:09","slug":"letonnant-bal-des-folles-de-la-salpetriere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/insolite\/histoire-insolite-paris\/letonnant-bal-des-folles-de-la-salpetriere\/","title":{"rendered":"L&rsquo;\u00e9tonnant bal des folles de la Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aujourd&rsquo;hui devenu un h\u00f4pital public g\u00e9n\u00e9ralis\u00e9, l&rsquo;ancien hospice de la <strong>Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re<\/strong> dans le 13e arrondissement de <strong>Paris<\/strong> \u00e9tait au XIXe si\u00e8cle un asile pour femmes, principalement atteintes d&rsquo;\u00e9pilepsie, d&rsquo;hyst\u00e9rie et de schizophr\u00e9nie. Sous l&rsquo;\u00e9gide du <strong>docteur Charcot<\/strong>, et accompagn\u00e9es par son stagiaire, le jeune <strong>Freud<\/strong>, les patientes intern\u00e9es \u00e9taient soumises \u00e0 des \u00e9tudes approfondies de leurs n\u00e9vroses \u00ab\u00a0exclusivement f\u00e9minines\u00a0\u00bb. Chaque ann\u00e9e, \u00e0 la mi-car\u00eame, la bonne soci\u00e9t\u00e9 parisienne \u00e9tait convi\u00e9e \u00e0 un bal pour le moins \u00e9tonnant : <strong>le bal des folles<\/strong>. Retour sur cet \u00e9v\u00e8nement \u00e0 la fois mondain et tragique.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Un moment de r\u00e9pit dans des vies d&rsquo;internement<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>C&rsquo;est la tradition. Alors que le tout-Paris se presse dans la grande salle \u00e0 manger de l&rsquo;hospice, les patientes intern\u00e9es se pr\u00e9parent \u00e0 d\u00e9filer, v\u00eatues de costumes loufoques carnavalesques. La f\u00eate dansante et costum\u00e9e, que la presse relaie sous l&rsquo;appellation de \u00ab\u00a0<strong>bal des folles<\/strong>\u00ab\u00a0, est offerte aux pensionnaires de la <strong>Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re<\/strong> comme un saint moment de distraction. Jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 une heure avanc\u00e9e, docteurs, internes, infirmiers, rivalisent d&rsquo;entrain pour animer le bal sous le regard attentif d&rsquo;invit\u00e9s de prestige et de nombreuses personnalit\u00e9s du monde m\u00e9dical. Les \u00ab\u00a0folles\u00a0\u00bb se pavanent d\u00e9guis\u00e9es en arlequins, pierrettes, pompiers ou mousquetaires, au son des violons et des fl\u00fbtes, les cuivres \u00e9tant consid\u00e9r\u00e9s \u00ab\u00a0dangereux pour leurs nerfs malades\u00a0\u00bb. Au milieu de ce zoo humain, une c\u00e9l\u00e8bre danseuse toutefois y fut r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9e : <strong>Jane Avril<\/strong>. La jeune femme, intern\u00e9e en 1882 \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e2ge de 14 ans, d\u00e9couvrit au cours de ce bal son don et sa passion pour la danse. Celle qui deviendra la muse de <strong>Toulouse-Lautrec<\/strong> quitte la <strong>Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re<\/strong> un an et demi apr\u00e8s son internement, et devient la coqueluche du <strong>Moulin-Rouge<\/strong>, du <strong>Divan japonais<\/strong>, du <strong>Bal Bullier<\/strong> et des <strong>Folies-Berg\u00e8re<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Tout comme le <strong>bal des enfants \u00e9pileptiques<\/strong>, ou la <strong>f\u00eate des fous<\/strong> \u00e0 destination des eccl\u00e9siastiques, la m\u00e9moire de ces bals est aujourd&rsquo;hui largement controvers\u00e9e. Pour la plupart disparus et oubli\u00e9s, ils \u00e9taient organis\u00e9s dans le cadre des festivit\u00e9s du <strong>Carnaval de Paris<\/strong>, f\u00eate tr\u00e8s populaire jusqu&rsquo;au d\u00e9but du XXe si\u00e8cle.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_116800\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116800\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bal-des-folles-salpetriere-paris-zigzag-e1591691534755.jpg\" alt=\"bal-des-folles-salpetriere-paris-zigzag\" width=\"800\" height=\"544\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-116800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Le bal des folles \u00e0 la Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re, 1890, par Le Monde Illustr\u00e9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>A lire \u00e9galement<\/strong> :<br \/>\n<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/insolite\/histoire-insolite-paris\/les-secrets-de-la-pitie-salpetriere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Les secrets de la Piti\u00e9-Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaque ann\u00e9e, la bonne soci\u00e9t\u00e9 parisienne \u00e9tait convi\u00e9e au bal des folles, mettant en sc\u00e8ne les patientes de la Piti\u00e9-Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":116805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"L&#039;\u00e9tonnant bal des folles de la Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re","_seopress_titles_desc":"Chaque ann\u00e9e, la bonne soci\u00e9t\u00e9 parisienne \u00e9tait convi\u00e9e au bal des folles, mettant en sc\u00e8ne les patientes de la Piti\u00e9-Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re. 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