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The Hôtel-Dieu (French pronunciation: [otɛl djø]; "God Shelter") is a public hospital located on the Île de la Cité in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, on the parvis of Notre-Dame. Tradition has it that the hospital was founded by Saint Landry in 651 AD, but the first official records date it to 829, [ 1 ] making it the oldest in France ...
16th century etching of a hall in the Hôtel-Dieu of Paris. The development of Tenon's treatise took place in the context of public debate on what was to be done about the Hôtel-Dieu of Paris, an ancient hospital located in central Paris near Notre Dame. In the 18th century, the Hôtel-Dieu was notoriously overcrowded, unsanitary, and ...
On the Seine in the 1st and 4th arrondissements of Paris, France The Île de la Cité ( French: [il d(ə) la site] ; English: City Island , lit. "Island of the City"), [ 1 ] is 22.5 hectares (56 acres) in size, [ 2 ] is one of the two natural islands in the Seine River (alongside, Île Saint-Louis ) in central Paris .
The neighbourhood around it is a business quarter that houses Paris' tallest building, the Tour Montparnasse. The Catacombs of Paris. To the south-east of the boulevard Montparnasse, to the bottom of the northward-running Avenue Denfert-Rochereau at the square of the same name, is one of Paris' few-remaining pre-1860s "prolype" gateways.
In French-speaking countries, a hôtel-Dieu (English: hotel of God) was originally a hospital for the poor and needy, run by the Catholic Church.Nowadays these buildings or institutions have either kept their function as a hospital, the one in Paris being the oldest and most renowned, or have been converted into hotels, museums, or general purpose buildings (for instance housing a préfecture ...
Printable version; Page information; ... Paris : Work location: ... A depiction of the Place du parvis and the entrance to the Hôtel-Dieu, as seen in 1877. ...
This July 12, 1953, article by El Paso historian Cleofas Calleros traces Hotel Dieu’s history from Sister Stella burrowing $5,500 to buy the hospital site at Stanton and Rio Grande streets to ...
The Hotel-Dieu de Paris, the oldest hospital in Paris, next to the Cathedral of Notre Dame on the Île de la Cité, was enlarged and rebuilt by Haussmann beginning in 1864, and finished in 1876. It replaced several of the narrow, winding streets of the old medieval city.