The measures taken between and situate the problem: the disappearance of confinement left madness without a precise point of insertion in the social space, and faced with this unchained peril, society reacted first of all with a series of measures planned for the long term, in keeping with an ideal that was coming into being the creation of houses reserved specifically for the insane and secondly with a series of immediate measures, which would allow madness to be mastered by force.