Hôpital de la Charité
12 rue de la Charité, 52200 Langres
In 1638, in response to the plague epidemics, Bishop Sébastien Zamet established the Brotherhood of Charity, in charge of helping the «poor sick».
The institution is entrusted with the management of a hospital set up in several houses. The 1770 fire led to the design of a new, more functional building. Designed by Nicolas Durand, architect of the Champagne Region, the new hospital consists of two pavilions connected to a central chapel by two wings. The latter housed the rooms reserved for the sick. The side pavilions were equipped with a convalescent room, a pharmacy and an operating room. The whole combines symmetry and monumentality around a forecourt forming enclosed garden.
The central building of the composition, the rotunda chapel has a high-quality neo-classical decoration. Work of the sculptor Antoine Besançon, the sculpted decoration underlines the vocation of the place, with Charity welcoming orphans to the pediment of the chapel, while the pillars framing the portal represe
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Site patrimonial remarquable, Monument historique, Édifice religieux i Édifice hospitalier
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