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Former Larrey Hospital in Toulouse en Haute-Garonne

Patrimoine classé
Patrimoine urbain
Hôpital
Haute-Garonne

Former Larrey Hospital in Toulouse

    17 Rue Larrey
    31000 Toulouse
Ancien hôpital Larrey à Toulouse 
Ancien hôpital Larrey à Toulouse 
Ancien hôpital Larrey à Toulouse 
Ancien hôpital Larrey à Toulouse 
Ancien hôpital Larrey à Toulouse 
Ancien hôpital Larrey à Toulouse 
Ancien hôpital Larrey à Toulouse 
Ancien hôpital Larrey à Toulouse 
Crédit photo : Don-vip - Sous licence Creative Commons

Timeline

Antiquité
Haut Moyen Âge
Moyen Âge central
Bas Moyen Âge
Renaissance
Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
0
100
1700
1800
1900
2000
début du Ier siècle (vers 0-14 ap. J.-C.)
Construction of Gallo-Roman rampart
1793
Foundation by Alexis Larrey
années 1980
Closing of the historic site
1987-1989
Historical monuments
1988
Archaeological excavations
2000
Integration into CHU
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

The facades and roofs of buildings A, C and F (see plan annexed to the decree) (Box AB 62): inscription by order of 30 January 1987, as amended by order of 13 April 1988 - facades and roofs of buildings B, D, E, including the gallery of the remaining cloister and the area of the former cloister; the remains of the Gallo-Roman rampart comprising the remains of a semicircular tower and a circular tower connected by an element of courtine of a length of approximately 50 m and a thickness of 2, 40 m (see plan annexed to the decree) (Box AB 683 to 685): inscription by order of 15 March 1989, as amended by order of 27 November 1989

Key figures

Alexis Larrey - Surgeon-major and founder Established in 1793
Hippolyte Larrey - Military doctor (petit-neveeu) Name given to CHR in 1984

Origin and history

The Larrey hospital came into being in 1793 when Major-Surgeon Alexis Larrey founded a first establishment in downtown Toulouse, near Place Saint-Pierre. Functional until the 1980s, this site now houses the regional conservation centre. Archaeological excavations carried out in 1988 reveal the remains of a large building of late antiquity, identified as the palace of wisigoth kings, as well as a section of the Gallo-Roman rampart dating back to the beginning of the first century (the Augustus or Tiberian kingdom). This bulwark, among the oldest of Roman Gaul, includes a courtine between two circular towers, partially preserved.

In 1984, the hospital was transferred to the current site of the Pech-David, in the district of Pouvourville, and took the name of CHR Hippolyte-Larrey, in tribute to the petit-neveu of Alexis Larrey, also a military doctor. The institution, initially military, was returned to civilian use in 2000 and integrated into the university hospital in Toulouse. The historic site of Place Saint-Pierre, for its part, is partially classified as historical monuments, notably for its facades, cloister, and Gallo-Roman remains (tours and courtine).

The current buildings of Larrey Hospital, specialized in pneumology, cancerology and chest surgery, are part of a medical continuity initiated more than two centuries ago. The archaeological site, with its remains from the fourth to the eighth century, bears witness to the strategic importance of Toulouse (then Tolosa) under the Wisigoths and during the Roman period. The protected elements also include a cloister gallery and the former cloister gallery, reflecting the architectural transformations of the 17th and 18th centuries.

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