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Origin and history

The Cochin Hospital was founded in 1780, when Jean-Denis Cochin, parish priest of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, founded the Saint-Jacques Hospital to welcome the poor and workers of the neighborhood. Thanks to his wealth and donations, he created a 40-bed establishment, which gradually expanded. In 1784, after the closure of the novitiate of the Capuchins, part of the premises became the hospital of the Capuchins (then the hospital of the Midi), dedicated to venereal diseases, because of its southern location in Paris.

In the 19th century, the hospital expanded by integrating several neighbouring structures: the Ricord Hospital (created in 1792 for veneres), the Port Royal maternity (1795), the Baudelocque Clinic (1890), and the Tarnier Hospital (1881). A major reconstruction between 1908 and 1926 gave rise to the current site, marked by its brick pavilion model. The establishment, now linked to the Université Paris-Cité, has 1,483 beds and employs 6,700 professionals, including a biomedical research institute (Institut Cochin, founded in 2002).

The Cochin Hospital is also known for significant events, such as the Call of Cochin (1978), where Jacques Chirac launches a political text from his hospital bed after an accident. The site also houses heritage protections: the Ricord Gate (classified 1942), the Capuchin Fountain (1990), the basement (1999), and the Capuchin Well (2004). Since the 1990s, he has been working with other hospitals (Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Broca) to form university hospital groups, including the Paris-Centre University Hospital Group (2011).

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