1) Pozzi, a great Parisian surgeon and essential figure of the Belle Époque, attempted to treat Maupassant suffering from syphilis, whose evolution towards a neurological form caused serious mental disorders until his internment and his death in 1893. In an August 1890 letter addressed to Pozzi, Maupassant asked to consult him: "For sixteen years, I have passed through the hands of Bazin, Vulpian (the dead) and among the living, Potain, Rendu, Peter, Brouardel, Charcot, Bouchard and many others, who have understood nothing about my state, except Bouchard who is nevertheless still, on the side of Evil, as I believe." A famous and socialite doctor, Pozzi frequented the artistic and literary “All-Paris” and treated many personalities including Sarah Bernhardt, whose lover he was for around t.
