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The surgeon Desplein, in Balzac's short story "The Atheist's Mass," is based on Dupuytren.
Dupuytren's success at draining a cerebral abscess is referred to in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary "not Dupuytren, about to open up an abscess through a thick encephalic layer" (Part Two, Chapter 11).
Dupuytren is mentioned as a youthful acquaintance of Stephen Maturin in The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian. Walking past his former student lodgings, Maturin comments, "Dupruyten lived just below... we used to share our corpses."
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