Neuchâtel Swiss city. It was also the site of a secret first meeting between French novelist Honoré de Balzac and the married woman who later became his wife, Eveline Hanska. Roger Schutz, founder of the Taize Community in France, was born on 12 May 1915 at the village of Provence near Neuchâtel. He was stabbed to death on 16 August 2005 by a mentally deranged woman during a prayer meeting in Taize's Church of Reconciliation. The psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Silvio Fanti was born in Neuchâtel in 1919. He founded and developed Micropsychoanalysis, a new school of psychoanalysis. Another important psychiatrist, Gottlieb
Paul Adam (French novelist) Paul Adam (French novelist) Paul Adam (December 7, 1862 – January 2, 1920) was a French novelist. Adam wrote a series of historical novels that dealt with the period of the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath; the first installment in the series, "La Force", was published in 1899. Together with Jean Moréas, he co-wrote "Les Demoiselles Goubert", which was a novel that marked the transition between Naturalism and Symbolism in French literature. His novel "Stephanie", which appeared in 1913, argued in favour of arranged marriages as opposed to those founded on romantic attachments. He was born and died in Paris.