• Year 1911.
  • Dr. Defaut (doctor, docteur).
  • 50 Avenue du Roule in Neuilly-sur-Seine, on the outskirts of Paris at the time.
  • From the window one could see the daffodils in the Bois de Boulogne.
  • The sanatorium is a one hour walk from the Hotel Elysee Palace where Alma Mahler (1879-1964) stayed.
  • Start of the serum treatment.
  • Check-in: 21-04-1911.
  • Check-out: 11-05-1911. 21 days.
  • Leaving Paris for Vienna on the night train 11-05-1911/12-05-1911.

Neuilly-sur-Seine, l’Avenue du Roule.

Defaut sanatorium, 50 Avenue du Roule.

Defaut sanatorium. 50 Avenue du Roule.

Year 1911Defaut sanatorium. Gustav Mahler and Dr. Jean-Joseph Defaut (1852-1929) in Illustriertes Wiener Extrablatt, 28-04-1911.

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