were in the study of hysteria and hypnotism; a competent neuropsychiatrist, he was particularly

interested in therapy. With a colleague, he wrote a highly perceptive analysis of Sister Jeanne des

Anges' account of her "hysterical illness" which was caused by a priest's unrequited love.

Tourette was shot by a deluded woman who had been a patient at the famous Salpêtrière

hospital.

One of the first descriptions of a syndrome of motor tics, echolalia, and coprolalia was reported by the 19th century French neurologist Jean-Marc Itard. His unfortunate patient, the Marquise de Dampierre, was a French noblewoman who developed motor tics at age 7 years and shortly thereafter developed involuntary vocalizations consisting of screams and strange cries. Several years later she developed coprolalia. With this host of problems, the Marquise was forced to live in seclusion and continued her involuntary cursing until her death at age 85. Some 50 years after Itard's report, Gilles de la Tourette produced a detailed account of several patients with a sigmilar condition, including the Marquise in her later years, that clearly established this entity. Jean Martin Charcot, one of the leading European neurologists of the 19th century and Gilles de la Tourette's supervisor at the Salpetriere, attached his pupil's name to this syndrome.