Plancher de Jeannot (Jeannot's Floorboards)

The religion invented machines to order the brain of people and animals and with an invention to see our sight starting from retina of the image of the eye misuses us health ideas of family material goods during sleep make us all villainy the Church after having made kill the Jews with Hitler wanted to invent a standard lawsuit and devil so seizing the power of the world and imposing peace on the wars the Church made the crimes and misusing us by electronics making us believe stories and by this faking to misuse our innocent ideas religion could make us show by faking stations listens writes and invent all things that they have for 10 years and misusing us by their invention brain has ordered and to see our sight has to leave image retina the eye to make us show of what it do to us without our knowledge it is the religion which made all the crimes and damage and villainy us invented of it an unknown program and by machine to order brain and to see our sight image retina eye... making us show to us all naps innocent of any crime wrong to others we Jean Paule we is innocent neither killed neither destroyed nor carries wrong to others it is the religion which invented a lawsuit with electronic machines to order the brain sleep all functions of the brain makes us show crimes that we did not make the proof the popes are called Jean XXIII instead of XXIV for me and Paul VI for Paule the Church wanted to invent a lawsuit and to cover the maquis of the neighbors with machine to order the brain of the world and to see the sight image of the eye makes kill the Jews with Hitler invented

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From the Guardian

Alex Duval Smith, Europe correspondent
Sunday October 2, 2005
The Observer

An incomprehensible screed of words carved by a grief-stricken schizophrenic French farmer into his bedroom floor has become Paris's most controversial new art exhibit.

Since the Plancher de Jeannot (Jeannot's Floorboards) went on display last week, it has created an unprecedented stir. 'People are terribly disturbed by it. Some feel it should not be on public view,' said Claudine Hermabessiere, spokeswoman for the Bibliotheque Francois Mitterrand. The carving - 80 lines of text, in capital letters with no punctuation - contains references to Hitler, to Popes and to an infernal machine that controls humans.

'The work raises painful questions about whether madness can be artistic. The people who are most upset are those who know Jeannot's story,' said Hermabessiere.

Although art critics want the work to continue to be seen by a wide audience after its stint at the Bibliotheque Nationale, Benoit Gallet, a spokesman for the Bristol Myers Squibb pharmaceutical company which owns Jeannot's Floorboards, said: 'We intend to offer the work to the Hopital Sainte Anne, a psychiatric centre in Paris. We feel that placing the work in that environment will help fight against the stigmatisation of mental illness as people will want to go in and see it.'