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Cour des Fondateurs, Hospices de Beaune, Beaune, Burgundy, France

Cour des Fondateurs or Courtyard of the Founders, with statues of founders Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of Burgundy, and his wife Guigone de Salins, 1914-23, by Henri Bouchard, at Les Hospices de Beaune, or Hotel-Dieu de Beaune, a charitable almshouse and hospital for the poor, built 1443-57 by Flemish architect Jacques Wiscrer, in Beaune, Cote d'Or, Burgundy, France. To the right is an ornate rooftop with Burgundian glazed tiles in geometric patterns. The hospital was run by the nuns of the order of Les Soeurs Hospitalieres de Beaune, and remained a hospital until the 1970s. The building now houses the Musee de l'Histoire de la Medecine, or Museum of the History of Medicine, and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Contained in galleries: Les Hospices de Beaune, Burgundy, France

Cour des Fondateurs or Courtyard of the Founders, with statues of founders Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of Burgundy, and his wife Guigone de Salins, 1914-23, by Henri Bouchard, at Les Hospices de Beaune, or Hotel-Dieu de Beaune, a charitable almshouse and hospital for the poor, built 1443-57 by Flemish architect Jacques Wiscrer, in Beaune, Cote d'Or, Burgundy, France. To the right is an ornate rooftop with Burgundian glazed tiles in geometric patterns. The hospital was run by the nuns of the order of Les Soeurs Hospitalieres de Beaune, and remained a hospital until the 1970s. The building now houses the Musee de l'Histoire de la Medecine, or Museum of the History of Medicine, and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen