Info excerpt from le forum républicain of 30 december 1888, a local (arles, france) newspaper reporting on vincent's van gogh's mutilation of his ear:last sunday, at 11. 30 pm, the painter vincent vangogh, a native of holland, arrived at licensed brothel no. 1, asking for rachel by name, and gave her his ear, saying: "keep this object carefully". He then disappeared. Informed of this fact, which could only be that of a poor insane person, the police went the next morning to this person, who they found lying in his bed, showing almost no sign of life. This unfortunate man was admitted to the hospice as a matter of urgency.
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