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Origin and history

The Hotel Scipion is a private hotel built from 1565 by Scipion Sardini, banker of Catherine de Medici, in the suburb of Saint-Marcel (current rue Scipion, 5th arrondissement). Built in an innovative Renaissance style for Paris, combining red brick and stone, it is distinguished by its Italian arcades and a paved courtyard. Sardini lived there with his wife Isabelle de Limeuil until his death in 1609.

After 1609, the hotel was transformed into a hospice under the name "hospice of the poor", sheltering bakery and butcher shop. In 1656 he joined the Hôpital-General as a delivery house (hospital Sainte-Marthe), and in 1793 became the central bakery of the Parisian hospitals, a function he retained until 1974. Close to the cemeteries of Clamart and Sainte-Catherine, it illustrates the evolution of hospital and charitable practices in Paris.

Ranked a historic monument in 1899 for its Renaissance gallery (six arches in the middle of the hangar decorated with terracotta medallions), the hotel was partially restored in the 1970s. Sold in 2021 by the AP-HP to a private developer, it is converted to an international university campus under the direction of architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte, with an opening planned for 2024.

The building marks the Parisian architectural history as the first brick and stone construction of the capital, before the royal squares of Henri IV. Its street façade and roof have been registered since 1969. Accessible via the Les Gobelins metro station (line 7), it bears witness to the links between hospital heritage, royal power and Parisian urban planning.

Future

He retained this function as a bakery until 1974 when he was transformed into a museum and then a public assistance administration. - Hospitals in Paris from 1983; position he still occupies.

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