Hospital of Salpêtrière
The Hôpital of Salpêtrière is a Hôpital of the Public assistance - hospital of Paris (AP-HP) located in the 13 {{E}} district of Paris.
History
In 1656, Louis XIV entrusted to the architect Libéral Bunting the construction of one hospital to the site of the small arsenal, where one manufactured the powder for the ammunition, called “Salpêtrière”. In 1684, it made add new an appendix to place the women of a house of correction. The day before 1789, the hospital could receive ten thousand patients (it was the largest old people's home of the world) and the prison counted more than three hundred prisoners.Currently gathered with the hospital of Pity, it one of the Parisian university hospitals, is currently called Hospital complex of Pity-Salpêtrière.
Architects of Salpêtrière
- Duval
- Liberal Bunting (17th century)
- Louis Vau (XVIIe century)
- Pierre the Dumb man (XVIIe century)
- Henri Prudhomme (1935)
Period of the Revolution
During the Revolution, in particular September 3rd and 4th 1792, terrible bloody scenes were held in the prison where one had piled up the poor and insane women. See Massacres of September.
Famous doctors
Several doctors of reputation exerted in Salpêtrière, among which:- Jean-Martin Charcot (1825 - 1893), precursor of the Neurology, was certainly the most famous doctor of the hospital
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939): in October 1885, Freud becomes pupil of medicine at Jean-Martin Charcot during four months in Paris.
- Joseph Babinski (1857 - 1932): at the end of its boarding school, he becomes senior registrar of Charcot of which he will become the preferred pupil, and takes part in the lessons of the Master in Salpêtrière.
- Philippe Pinel (1745 - 1826)
- Jean-Etienne Esquirol (1772 - 1840)
- Etienne-Jean Georget (1795 - 1828)
- Ernest-Charles Lasègue (1816 - 1883)
- Alfred Vulpian (1826 - 1893)
- Paul Richer (1849 - 1933), a anatomist impassioned by a scientific approach of the artistic beauty, collaborated with Charcot in Salpêtrière
- Pierre Janet (1859 - 1947), a psychological which is a major figure of the French clinic psychology of the 19th century.
Anecdotes
- the Princess Diana and Joséphine Baker died in Salpêtrière.
- Salpêtrière was used as place of turning for films:
- Cléo from 5 to 7 of Agnes Varda (1962)
- Laura , short film of Pierre Zandrowicz (2006).
See too
External bonds
- Site of the Pierre Medical college and Marie Curie of faculty Pitié Salpêtrière
- Photographs (and drawings by Tardi) of Salpêtrière. This site also speaks about the architects and the doctors of Salpêtrière.
- Historical and structures of Salpêtrière;
- Historical of Salpêtrière by Yves Gaudreau;
- Historical since the Roman epoch of Pity-Salpêtrière
- Liberal Bunting (the architect of the vault of Salpêtrière)
- Plane of the hospital
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