Hôtel-Dieu de Paris
The Hôtel -Dieu de Paris, dedicated to St. Christopher, was the oldest hospital in Paris and stayed until the Renaissance also the only one. It was in the year 651 by the Parisian bishop Landericus ( Saint Landry ) was founded as a modest hostel - as usual in the immediate vicinity of the Notre Dame Cathedral.
The Hôtel -Dieu was on the south side of the Ile de la Cité, but also on the Rive Gauche, and was the only building in the city, which stood at two banks of the Seine. The two parts were connected by a bridge, the Pont au Double.
Georges- Eugène Haussmann was in the course of its urban renewal project in 1865 demolish the old Hôtel Dieu and replace a few meters by the much larger new building of today's Hôpital Hôtel -Dieu. It takes on the Île de la Cité to the entire area between the Rue de la Cité and the Rue d' Arcole, the Parvis Notre- Dame and the Quai de la Corse one, an area of about three acres.
Among the doctors who have worked at the Hôtel -Dieu, were:
- Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771-1802)
- Bouchardat Apollinaire (1806-1886)
- Pierre -Joseph Desault (1744-1795)
- Paul Georges Dieulafoy (1839-1911)
- Guillaume Dupuytren (1777-1835)
- Joseph Forlenze (1757-1833)
- Henri Albert Hartmann (1860-1952)
- Louis Lemery (1677-1743)
- Philippe -Jean Pelletan (1747-1829)
- Joseph Claude Anthelme Recamier (1774-1852)
- Philibert -Joseph Roux (1780-1854)
- Antoine Joseph Jobert de Lamballe (1799-1867)
- Armand Trousseau (1801-1867)
See also: Hôtel- Dieu