Hôtel-Dieu, Paris
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The Hôtel-Dieu is a public hospital located on the Île de la Cité in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, on the parvis of Notre-Dame. Tradition has it that the hospital was founded by Saint Landry in 651
View of the Hôtel-Dieu from the Tour Saint-Jacques
Episodes from the Life of a Bishop-Saint, by the Master of Saint Giles (c. 1500), showing the Gothic buildings of the old Hôtel-Dieu at right
16th-century etching of a hall in the Hôtel-Dieu
Painting by Victor-Jean Nicolle
The Parvis Notre-Dame – Place Jean-Paul II is a square in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. Located on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité, the square is bordered by the Hôtel-Dieu hospital to the n
Nighttime view of the Parvis Notre-Dame in 2014
One of two plaques on the southern corners of the Hôtel-Dieu, unveiled in 2006
The parvis from Notre-Dame's south tower in 2008. The outline of Saint-Etienne is marked with small light-gray cobblestones in the lower part of the image. The higher contrast white stones mark the Rue Neuve-Notre-Dame [fr] (center), the church of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Ardents (upper right), and the medieval parvis (lower right) which includes the point zéro.
Ruins of 4th century hot baths built on the site of the future parvis, seen in the Archaeological Crypt of the Île de la Cité