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
Pierre Benoit (novelist) Pierre Benoit (novelist) Pierre Benoit (16 July 1886 - 3 March 1962) was a French novelist and member of the Académie française. Pierre Benoit, born in Albi (southern France) was the son of a French soldier. Benoit spent his early years and military service in Northern Africa, before becoming a civil servant. His first novel, "Koenigsmark", was published in 1918; "L'Atlantide" was published the next year and was awarded the Grand Prize of the Académie française. Benoit became a member of the Académie in 1931. A political right-winger, Benoit was an admirer of the French fascist Charles Maurras. During the