Publisher's Synopsis
Our Pinel Family started with Scipion Pinel born in 1660 in Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux, France. Scipion was the great-grandfather of Philippe Pinel, the Psychiatrist in charge of the Parisian Hospitals Bicetre and Saltpetriere from 1792 to 1826. His son Charles Pinel moved to Brazil in 1830 and married Marie Catherine Rime, who emigrated from Switzerland to Brazil with her family in 1819. Their descendants are numerous and still strong in Brazil.
