PLANNING LATIN QUARTER BOMBARDMENT HAS HAPPY RESULTS

 

THE ORIGINAL HÔTEL-DIEU* BLOCKED CANNONADING THE LEFT BANK

*"God's mansion," or hospital. This is the city's oldest, established in 671.

         Paris toward 1550 / zoom and scroll down

So Haussmann had it torn down and rebuilt on the farther side:

Zoom (please scroll down) 

Today the cleared space brings a panorama...

The hospital gone, the Panthéon is within cannon shot.

And the rebuilt hospital is an architectural gem:

 

The statue of the founder, decorated by interns

A patient and novice arrive at the hospital run by nun. The blown-up engravings line the gallery next to the garden.

View of Notre-Dame from the forth-floor terrace 

Here too, preparing repression led to beauty.

Then the garden was closed in 2023

to everyone not connected to the hospital. 

At least it was not made into a luxury hotel,

as was rumored for a time.

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Gifts of repression