Career
He is famous for his treatise on melancholia, Traicte de l"essence et guerison de l"amour ou de la melancholie erotique (1610), an early psychological work on melancholia. lieutenant was for this work he was put on trial for by the Inquisition. The treatise on erotic melancholia may have been read by the French writer, Eugene Sue, whose character "Jacques Ferrand", actually dies from an unrequited passion.
Sue"s father had been a distinguished doctor, and Sue himself was engaged in the medical profession when he was a young manitoba
