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The Hôtel-Dieu (French pronunciation: [otÉ›l 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 ...
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 ...
As one of the largest business districts in the world, Paris La Défense is a major destination for business travel in Europe. Characteristics: 3,000,000 m² (32.3 million sq. ft) of offices; Europe's largest shopping centre with nearly 3,000 hotel rooms, 600 shops and services, and over 100 restaurants
The Munser map of Paris from 1572. The population of Paris is estimated by modern historians to have been about 250,000 at the beginning of the 16th century, growing to 350,000 by 1550, then dropping down to 300,000 by the end of the century, due to the plague epidemic of 1580, and the long siege of the city during the Wars of Religion.
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 ...
This is a list of hospitals in France with sorting by city and name. As of 2004, about 62% of French hospital capacity was met by publicly owned and managed hospitals.The remaining capacity was split evenly (18% each) between non-profit sector hospitals (which are linked to the public sector and which tend to be owned by foundations, religious organizations or mutual-insurance associations ...
Hôtel-Dieu (French hospital) established in Paris [16] 872 Al-Fustat Hospital established in Cairo, one of the first hospitals to offer mental health treatment [41] 981 Al-'Adudi Hospital Bimaristan established in Baghdad by King 'Adud al-Dawla [41] 1083–1084 Hospital of St Nicholas, Nantwich, hospital for travelers in Nantwich, England [42 ...
The 4th arrondissement of Paris (IV e arrondissement) is one of the twenty arrondissements of Paris, the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as quatrième. Along with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd arrondissements, it is in the first sector of Paris, which maintains a single local government rather than four ...