Val-de-Grâce

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The Val-de-Grâce church
Former convent building
Interior of the church

Val-de-Grâce (German: "Valley of Grace") is an important, partly historical building complex in the 5th arrondissement in Paris , which consists of a former royal convent and the associated church of Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce from the 17th century Century as well as of contemporary buildings that currently house a military hospital , the Hôpital d'instruction des armées du Val-de-Grâce , or HIA Val-de-Grâce .

The abbey

The abbey was founded in 1621 by the French Queen Anna of Austria to house nuns from the Val-de-Grâce de Bièvre monastery - and to receive religious support for the hoped-for birth of an heir to the throne, which was still a long time coming when the future Louis XIV was born.

After the death of her husband Louis XIII. In 1645 Anna commissioned François Mansart to add a church (in the middle) and a palace (left) to the convent (which is on the right as seen from the forecourt), in which she wanted to live herself. Mansart was recalled a year later, so only the church was built according to his plans. After several changes of master builder - Jacques Lemercier , Pierre Le Muet and Gabriel Leduc followed Mansart - the church was completed in 1667.

Anna von Österreich had died the year before in her apartment in the convent.

During the French Revolution , the royal insignia was erased and the ensemble was rededicated as a military hospital.

The hospital

The modern hospital

During the revolution (1789–1799) the ensemble was rededicated as a military hospital. The École du Val-de-Grâce was created , where Félix Hippolyte Larrey, the son of Dominique Jean Larrey , studied from 1828 and was given the chair of surgery in 1841. In addition, there was the École d'application de médecine militaire in 1850 ; In 1993 it became the École d'application du Service de santé des armées and thus the first university hospital for the French military . Contrary to a common rumor in the past, there is no personally reserved hospital room for either the President or the Prime Minister . VIP rooms do exist, but they are not personal. Two former French Prime Ministers, Raymond Barre and Pierre Messmer , spent their final days in hospital.

literature

  • Paris . Editions du patrimoine, Paris 2008, ISBN 2-7577-0024-3 .
  • Jean-Pierre Babelon: François Mansart . Editions Gallimard, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-0701-1592-5 .
  • André Chastel: L'art français . Volume 3, Flammarion, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-0801-0190-0 .
  • Aline Dumoulin, Alexandra Ardisson, Jérôme Maingard, Murielle Antonello: Paris d'Église en Église . Éditions Massin, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7072-0583-4 .
  • Alexandre Gady: La Montagne Sainte-Geneviève et le Quartier Latin . Editions Hoëbeke, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-8423-0067-X .
  • Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos: Le guide du Patrimoine . Paris 1994, ISBN 2-0101-6812-7 .
  • Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos: Histoire de l'architecture française . Volume 2, Editions du Patrimoine, Mengès / Paris 1999, ISBN 2-8562-0374-4 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Larrey, Félix Hippolyte Baron. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 826.

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 23 "  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 33"  E