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Tag Archives: Hôpital St-Vincent-de-Paul
Red children and foundling wheels
Some Paris names evoke long-gone places in the city’s past. The name Tuileries now represents a garden, before that a palace with a violent history, and before that, an area where tiles were made. I’ve always found it interesting that … Continue reading
Posted in Paris history, Paris hospitals, Paris markets
Tagged Assistance Publique de Paris, Île de la Cité, Boulevard Denfert-Rochereau, Charles Marville, Enfants de Dieu, foundling wheel, Hôpital de la Trinité, Hôpital St-Vincent-de-Paul, Henri Pottin, Hospice des Enfants Assistés, Hotel Dieu, Institution de l'Oratoire, Jean le Rond d’Alembert, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marché des Enfants Rouges, Rachel Ginnis Fuchs, St Vincent de Paul, St. Vincent de Paul, tour d'abandon, wet nurses
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Places of healing
As businesses and institutions in France begin to open up, cautiously, I find myself trying to imagine life in the city right now. Those thoughts start with the quartier we know best – the Observatoire. It’s a neighbourhood that I … Continue reading
Posted in Paris history, Paris hospitals
Tagged American Hospital in Neuilly, Cochin Hospital, Hôpital Laënnec, Hôpital Lariboisière, Hôpital St-Louis, Hôpital St-Vincent-de-Paul, Hôtel-Dieu, Hertford British Hospital, Jean-Martin Charcot, La Pitié–Salpetrière, Necker children's hospital, Port Royal maternity hospital, Sigmund Freud, Stanley Loomis, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue hospital, Val de Grace
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