Ideas. Synthesis. Disharmony.

Not enough is known about Laure and Gabrielle to explain their sad eventual fates. In 1915, the year Gabrielle committed suicide by throwing herself from the top of a staircase, Laure was admitted to a mental hospital. The situation is complicated by the fact that, in the nineteenth century, calling a woman insane was often a convenient way of getting rid of her. A sense of frustration was seen as a refusal to be happy, arguing with a husband a sacrilege, and rebelling against her natural roles as dangerous.