Court of the miracles

With Paris, the place called the Cour of the Miracle S was old the district ranging between the street of Cairo and the Rue Réaumur, in current the II {{E}} district. The robbers and the beggars had taken possession of this district and went until electing a king.

This place inspired with Victor Hugo certain scenes of Notre-Dame de Paris . Thus, the Esmeralda Gipsy finds the Gringoire poet, then lost in this place, and saves it by marrying it.

Pauper of the campaigns: the rural population most underprivileged went in the cities there to seek work and to be able to nourish itself.
Pauper of the cities: under the reign of Louis XIV, the number of the paupers had become very important, which had involved an insecurity likely to displease.

Course of the miracles: the poor and the shadies lived course of the miracles , called thus because the infirmities (often false) of the beggars disappeared there at the fallen night, as by miracle. They there had organized and represented a danger growing that the royal capacity decided éradiquer.

Disappearance of the courses of the miracles: a policy of enfermement systematic in the establishments of the General hospital was followed starting from 1656. The lieutenant-general of police force Gabriel Nicolas of Reynie was then charged to put an end to this situation and got busy there with boldness: shaven houses and sending with the galères of 60.000 beggars and estropiés forgeries, marked with red iron. The repressive system loses ground starting from 1750 with the profit of a step of the hygienists and Médecin S.

Internal bond

Notre-Dame de Paris of Victor Hugo.
Louis Dominique Cartridge

External bond

History and traditions of France: Courses of the miracles

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