Pre-Program of the meeting 2025, June 30 - July 5

Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893): Constructing Neurology
Bicentennial of his birth, International Meeting Paris July 1-5, 2025

Monday June 30,2025
18h - 20h Welcome cocktail and registration
Institut du Cerveau, Hôpital de La Salpêtrière, Paris XIII

Tuesday July 1, 2025
Institut du Cerveau, Hôpital de La Salpêtrière, Paris XIII
8h - 8h30 Registration

8h30 – 10h30 Jean-Martin Charcot: the man and his personality

11h - 13h Charcot and his time: positivism, anti-clericalism, secularization of hospitals,
The influence of Désiré-Magloire Bourneville
The Chair in diseases of the nervous system

14h30 - 16h30 The anatomical-clinical method: Vulpian, Claude Bernard, Brown-Sequard

17h - 18h30 Charcot facing the English and German neurology
London international congress

Wednesday July 2, 2025
Institut du Cerveau, Hôpital de La Salpêtrière, Paris XIII
8h30 - 10h30 Charcot’s major neurological interests

11h - 13h Charcot and Hysteria, Charcot and psychiatry: Benjamin Ball, Alix Joffroy, Gilbert Ballet,
Pierre Janet

14h30 -16h30 Charcot professor and the Salpêtrière’s school
Famous pupils: Joseph Babiński, Pierre Marie, Édouard Brissaud

17h - 18h30 The Tuesday lessons

Thursday July 3, 2025
10h - 11h 30 Historical visit of La Salpêtrière and Charcot’s library

13h30- 18h A cultural tour (bus):
André Brouillet : Une leçon clinique à La Salpêtrière (Musée histoire de la médecine)
L’École pratique et le Couvent des Cordeliers: Statue Victor Cornil by Paul Richer
Statue Vulpian by Paul Richer, rue Paul Dubois
Neuilly sur Seine: visit of the Summer residence, birthplace of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (July 15, 1867)
53 Boulevard du Commandant Charcot; architect: René Simonet, house built in 1813

19h30 - 23h Gala Dinner, Hôtel de Varengeville, 217 boulevard Saint-Germain Paris VII
Charcot’s travels and the Tuesday soirées
ISHN awards and prizes

Friday July 4, 2025
Institut du Cerveau, Hôpital de La Salpêtrière, Paris XIII
8h30 - 10h30 Charcot and his patients: population, examination, therapeutic interventionist

11h - 13h Charcot Journals’editor: Archives de neurologie, Archives de physiologie normale et pathologique,
Iconographie photographique de La Salpêtrière, Nouvelle iconographie de La Salpêtrière, Archives de
médecine expérimentale et d’anatomie pathologique, le Progrès médical, La Revue neurologique

14h30 - 16h30 Predecessors and Continuators: Duchenne de Boulogne, Jules Luys, Fulgence Raymond,
Pierre Marie, Jules and Augusta Dejerine

Saturday July 5, 2025
Institut du Cerveau, Hôpital de La Salpêtrière, Paris XIII
8h30 - 12h Charcot designer and artist and Charcot’s trips: Paul Richer, Albert Londe, Mrs Augustine Durvis-Charcot