PLANNING LATIN QUARTER BOMBARDMENT HAS HAPPY RESULTS

 

THE ORIGINAL HÔTEL-DIEU* BLOCKED CANNONADING THE LEFT BANK

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

         Paris toward 1550 / zoom and scroll down

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

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Today the cleared space brings a panorama and the rebuilt hospital, an architectural gem:

The Panthéon is within cannon shot once the hospital is removed.

 

The statue of the founder, decorated by interns

A patient and novice arrive at the hospital run by nun. The series of blown-up engravings is exhibited in the gallery next to the garden.

View from the forth-floor terrace 

Here too,

preparing repression led to beauty.

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Next,

The hospital garden