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The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether is a short story of black humor, written by Edgar Allan Poe and translated into French by Charles Baudelaire.

Summary
It was in autumn that the narrator, visiting the southern provinces of France, suggested to his traveling companion that they visit a nursing home for the insane that some of his friends had told him about. The traveling companion, put off by the “abject” idea of ​​visiting a madhouse, still offers to accompany him to the entrance, in order to introduce him to Mr. Maillard, the Director, whom he knows. The friend then leaves, having accomplished his task. And Maillard tours the place with the narrator. It is a hospice which applies the system of gentleness, that is to say that punishment is avoided and that isolation is very occasionally used. The narrator, who has apparently studied the physiology of madness a lot, is surprised when Mr. Maillard explains to him that the system of gentleness has recently been abandoned, and that we have “returned to the old mistakes”. However, he explains to him in detail all the aspects of the system of gentleness, laissez-faire, reduction to the absurd... The narrator is very surprised by what he hears... (Audio book)