Hôpital Lariboisière

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Entrance to the Hôpital Lariboisière
Inner courtyard of the Hôpital Lariboisière

The Hôpital Lariboisière is a hospital in Paris . It is located in the 10th arrondissement and is now part of the public hospital association Assistance publique - hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP). The address is 2, rue Ambroise Paré . The nearest metro stations are Gare du Nord and Barbès-Rochechouart on lines 4 and 2 . It is a teaching hospital of the Université de Paris .

history

Due to the cholera epidemic of 1832, it was decided to build a hospital for the densely populated Faubourgs in the northern quarter, as the previous facilities had proven to be insufficient. After various projects had been discussed, construction of the hospital began in 1846 under the architect Martin-Pierre Gauthier ( Membre de l'Institut ). The hospital, inaugurated in 1854, was built from individual pavilions according to the hygienic ideas of the time in order to avoid contamination. Two-story buildings were erected on the 52,000 m² property, one part for women and another part for men. The buildings are symmetrically laid out and connected to one another by glazed corridors. The main facade is on Rue Ambroise-Paré, opposite the main portal (with four Doric columns ), at the end of the right-angled inner courtyard, the chapel was built. The facade of the chapel is adorned with statues symbolizing charity, hope and faith . These statues and the rest of the sculptural decoration were made by Noel-Jules Girard .

Name changes

The hospital has been renamed several times:

  • 1839: Hôpital du Nord (name in the planning phase)
  • 1841: Hôpital Louis-Philippe
  • 1848: Hôpital de la République
  • 1854: Hôpital Lariboisière

The hospital is named after the Countess Élisa de Lariboisière (born January 22, 1794 in Paris; † December 27, 1851). She was the daughter of Antoine Roy , finance minister under Louis XVIII. , and wife of Charles de Lariboisière . This was the son of Jean Ambroise Baston de Lariboisière , a general of Napoleon . Élisa de Lariboisière died without descendants and bequeathed most of her fortune to the city of Paris to build a hospital. In the chapel there is a marble tomb of the donor, the work of the sculptor Charles Marochetti .

Current condition

Originally planned for 600 beds, the hospital now has 1,200 beds after the extensions from the 1980s. In 1986 the three-storey underground construction under the large inner courtyard was completed and the helicopter landing pad on the roof of a new building on the edge of the site was inaugurated. The hospital serves as a university hospital for medical training. The specialist focus is on the areas of emergency medicine (first aid, intensive care medicine, cardiology), locomotor system (rheumatology and orthopedics) and neurosensory medicine (neurology, neurosurgery, neuroradiology, ENT, ophthalmology and headache clinic). Lariboisière serves as the national reference center for rare vascular diseases of the brain and eyes (Center de Référence de Maladies Vasculaires Rares du Cerveau et de l'Oeil: CERVCO).

The chapel

Monument protection

Since 1986, the part of the hospital are under preservation ( monument historique ): The chapel walls, the roof structure and the covered walkway.

literature

  • Laure Beaumont-Mallet: Vie et histoire du Xe arrondissement . Editions Hervas, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-903118-35-3 (1st edition 1988)
  • Henry-Gobet Aude: Le 10e arrondissement. Itinéraires d'histoire et d'architecture . Action artistique de la ville de Paris, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-913246-10-9
  • Jean Colson, Marie-Christine Lauroa (eds.): Dictionnaire des monuments de Paris . Editions Hervas, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-84334-001-2 (1st edition 1992)

Web links

Commons : Hôpital Lariboisière  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HOPITAL LARIBOIS
  2. ↑ PRÉSENTATION DU CERVCO. Retrieved July 18, 2020 (French).

Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 59 "  N , 2 ° 21 ′ 11"  E