Free visits to the Chapel of the Saint-Louis Hospital

Name: Visites libre de la Chapelle de l'hôpital Saint-Louis
Start: 2022-09-17T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Chapelle de l'hôpital Saint-Louis

discovery of the monument from the historical and architectural angle

Samedi 17 septembre 2022, 15h00Passé

libre de droits

Guided tours of about twenty minutes emphasizing the architectural quality of the monument justifying its classification as a Historical Monument and its insertion in the history of the Saint-Louis hospital.

Types d'événement

Visite commentée / Conférence

Thème 2022

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Gratuit

À propos du lieu

Chapelle de l'hôpital Saint-Louis

16 rue de la Grange-aux-Belles 75010 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

Access to the chapel is also via 1 avenue Claude Vellefaux.
Saint-Louis is the oldest Parisian hospital started under Henri IV following epidemics of plague. Sick and carers lived cut off from the world, in an almost autarky made possible by the presence of orchards, vegetable gardens, cultures of medicinal plants behind the outer wall. There were then four square buildings housing administrative services and nursing staff. In the centre, a third enclosure, the "quadrilateral", surrounded by pavilions, was reserved for the sick. Thus was realized the confinement of the contagious and .. those who cared for them! In the 19th century, Saint-Louis became the centre of the French school of dermatology and in 1880, it was decided to build a dermatology museum to house the mouldings made by Baretta (4807 pieces). Construction started in 1882 by the architect Vera and completed in 1884\. Official inauguration in 1889.