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  • They used me to try to make a young man called Charenton talk, 'he said.

    Pied Piper Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1942

  • -- The Coast Guard is responding Friday to an overturned mobile inland drilling unit (MIDU) in the Charenton navigational canal south of Highway 90.

    Louisiana Drilling Rig Overturns: Accident At Mobile Inland Drilling Unit 2010

  • My discovery of art brut began in Paris in the rue de Charenton in 1987, in an apartment I had sublet from a Psychoanalyst who had posters of art brut exhibitions of the work of the Swiss artist, Adolf Wolfli hanging in the living room.

    Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Art Brut Goes Mainstream 2009

  • In 1880 André Gill was committed to the Charenton mental asylum.

    André Gill tellurian 2009

  • André Gill never recovered his sanity, and after a few months Charenton seized his property and drawings, auctioning them off to pay their bills.

    André Gill tellurian 2009

  • Twenty years later, also in the rue de Charenton in Paris, I discovered the art brut gallery operated by Christian Oberst, La galerie d'objet trouve.

    Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Art Brut Goes Mainstream 2009

  • The painting's poor reception by the artists of the Salon sent him back to Charenton.

    André Gill tellurian 2009

  • Sade's wife was his partner in crime even after he apparently seduced her sister; his last mistress stayed loyally with him for more than 20 years, even in his last home, the lunatic asylum at Charenton.

    A Divided Nature 2008

  • The movie looks at the marquis's last days, locked up in the madhouse at Charenton.

    A Role He Can Feast On 2008

  • Charenton; I will write a note to the Commissioner – General of

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

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