Hôpital du Gros-Caillou
The Hôpital du Gros-Caillou was a former military hospital in Paris . The hospital was named after the Gros-Caillou district in the 7th arrondissement in Paris in which it was located.
The origins of the hospital go back to 1757, when Duke Biron was commissioned to buy up all the land and houses necessary for the establishment of a hospital for the Régiment des Gardes françaises . Operations began in 1759. In the course of the French Revolution , the Gros-Caillou fell to the city of Paris in 1789. But as early as 1802, by decree of Napoleon , the Caillou was assigned to the Garde impériale as a hospital. At that time there was a doctor, 6 surgeons and 4 pharmacists working there. In the years to come, the Caillou was to expand and by 1810 this hospital, which had 24 rooms with 18 to 20 beds, was able to accept 450 patients. A total of 20 surgeons and 5 pharmacists then worked there. The bed capacity rose to over 630 by 1867.
The Gros-Caillou was demolished in 1899 and only the fountain, the Fontaine de Mars , which stood in front of the main entrance, was spared. This is located at rue Saint Dominique 129–131.
While the hospital in Paris was of course known, Alexandre Dumas managed to make Gros-Caillou known throughout France in his novel The Countess of Charny .
The hospital is mentioned again and again throughout the book. However, an entire scene is also dedicated to Gros-Caillou. In the French edition, the chapter is accordingly called Hôpital du Gros-Caillou . The protagonists are also known from the other volumes of a doctor's memoir . Here Ange Pitou and the injured farmer Billot, tenant of Doctor Honore Gilbert, come to the completely overcrowded hospital. Billot is transported on a stretcher. Mattresses had been procured from everywhere, which are now lying on the ground and on which the injured are lying. No doctor can be seen. After several hours of waiting, a doctor appears: Honore Gilbert. He treats his badly injured friend. When Gilbert is done with it, he asks Pitou how and why he is here, and Pitou tells about his search for Billot and the Martian massacre . Gilbert, however, was also on the Marsfeld and came to Gros-Caillou by a different route, where he looked after the injured one after the other until he met Pitou.
literature
- Alain Pigeard: Le service de santé de la Garde impériale , Tradition magazine, 2012, issue 259, 5–12
- Maurice Bouvet. L'hôpital des Gardes-Françaises devenu "du Gros-Caillou" , Revue d'histoire de la Pharmacie. 1957, Volume 45, Issue 157, pp. 178-182
- Alexandre Dumas. La Contesse de Charny: L'hôpital du Gros-Caillou . Chapter CXIX.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manuel: des oeuvres et institutions religieuse, Paris: Poussielgue, 1867, p. 247, in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on October 16, 2017
- ↑ Alain Pigeard: Le service de santé de la Garde impériale at persée , accessed on October 26, 2017
- ↑ Maurice Bouvet. L'hôpital des Gardes-Françaises devenu "du Gros-Caillou" from persée , accessed on October 26, 2017