Hôpital des Quinze-Vingts
The Hôpital des Quinze-Vingts (also Hôpital des Quinze-Vingt ) is located at 28 rue de Charenton in the 12th arrondissement of Paris .
It was founded in 1260 by Louis the Saint as a hospital for the blind and had its first location on Rue Saint-Honoré , where it remained until 1780.
The name comes from quinze vingt "fifteen (times) twenty" = 300 in the vigesimal system and refers to the fact that the hospital had 300 beds available. According to legend, it was founded for three hundred crusaders blinded by the Saracens , who were Louis IX. brought back from his first crusade .
In 1780, Louis XVI. relocated the hospital to the rue de Charenton, in the former barracks of the black musketeers , whose association had been dissolved in 1775.
Even today, the Hôpital des Quinze-Vingts (in buildings from 1957) is the Center Hospitalier National d'Ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingts , a special ophthalmological hospital.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ YES Delaure et Gabriel Roux, Histoire de Paris, 1853, p 132nd
- ^ Hospital website (French). Retrieved August 30, 2017
Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 8.2 " N , 2 ° 23 ′ 39.8" E