''L'hôpital'' means "The

Hospital A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emerge ...

" in French. L'Hôpital may refer to:

Places

Lhôpital Lhôpital () is a former commune in the Ain department in eastern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune of Surjoux-Lhopital.L'Hôpital, Moselle L'Hôpital (; german: Spittel) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It is the birthplace of the Slovenian author Mile Klopčič and historian France Klopčič. Population See also * Communes of the ...

, a commune in the Moselle department, France

People

Michel de L'Hôpital Michel de l'Hôpital (or l'Hospital) (1507 – 13 March 1573) was a French statesman. Biography De l'Hôpital was born near Aigueperse in Auvergne (now Puy-de-Dôme). His father, who was physician to the Constable de Bourbon, sent him to stud ...

(–1573), French humanist and politician *

Guillaume de l'Hôpital Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital (; sometimes spelled L'Hospital; 1661 – 2 February 1704), also known as Guillaume-François-Antoine Marquis de l'Hôpital, Marquis de Sainte-Mesme, Comte d'Entremont, and Seigneur d'Ouques-la ...

(1661–1704), French mathematician

Other uses

L'Hôpital's rule In calculus, l'Hôpital's rule or l'Hospital's rule (, , ), also known as Bernoulli's rule, is a theorem which provides a technique to evaluate limits of indeterminate forms. Application (or repeated application) of the rule often converts an i ...

, a theorem in mathematics developed in 1696 by Johann Bernoulli and presented to and named after Guillaume de l'Hôpital