A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse

Victoria Shepherd

'Fascinating and compassionate' Horatio Clare The King of France thinking he was made of glass was terrified he might shatter -and he wasn't alone. After the Emperor met his end at Waterloo, an epidemic of Napoleons piled into France's asylums. Throughout the nineteenth century, dozens of middle-aged ...