Avant l'Hôtel-Dieu, un morceau disparu du Vieux Paris

In the 1860s, the construction project for the new Hôtel-Dieu de Paris on the Île de la Cité required the destruction of a small two-hectare neighborhood. Many streets were wiped off the map, and hundreds of buildings, some of them very old, disappeared. This video brings this neighborhood back to life and offers a virtual tour, complete with maps, photographs, and prints. Iconography CC0 Paris Museums / Carnavalet Museum CC0 Paris Museums / Petit Palais City of Paris, Historical Library Paris, INHA Digital Library Geneva, Museum of Art and History New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art Washington, National Gallery of Art Washington, Library of Congress David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries Melbourne, State Library Victoria Documentation Around Notre-Dame, Paris and its Heritage collection, Paris, Artistic Action of the City of Paris, 2003. Laurent Gloaguen, vergue.com