yes there are lengths! yes the subject is not as flashy as the "Victoria System" ... obviously Metz or Champagne it's less dream that Paris and all its bling bling lights .... I confess, after the first chapter I was at least doubtful and I was afraid to find long time .... Yet once this introduction, the book starts and found Reinhardt with his writing like to scholarly embroideries great grandmother! the character of Jean François is beautifully described: the evil manipulator, rigid and castrating psycho .... and pathological in all its splendor. Lola teen pre-teen cheeky, psychological heir to his father .... and Bénédicte, soft dreamy idealist, which unfortunately has no place in this world too flawed for its solar character! saw the ilk, it is clear that the JF can only grind in every sense of the word! and finally his final agony is there for the issuing of this patient tyrant! then yes E.Reinhardt stirred, but if he wants to describe his characters equally well he must use this procedé ... then yes scenes in the antique shop may seem off-putting ... yes the passage in St. psy Blandine may put in some ..... in my case after long study history, to fill my plate and pay my bills, I followed the training of nurses, and I worked 7 years by choice, psy! well I can guarantee you that the author is damn rencardé as this happening like this. and it is true that it is not always very exciting! but then, so do not take care of psy sick? and how hedge funds and all the blah blah financial world of "victoria system" they are more glorious than the description of a psy lodge? Bénédicte a time would, no longer from Sainte Blandine: when a patient does not want to leave the institution is that it really needs. And if that is not the case of aggregate letters ..... despite the lengths it's still Reinhardt! After we like it or not. 2 caveats: Chapter in Villiers de l'Isle Adams and the last are they really necessary?