The Hôpital Cochin () is a hospital of public assistance in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Jacques
Paris 14e. It houses the central burn treatment centre of the city. The Hôpital Cochin is a section of the Faculté de Médecine Paris-Cité. It commemorates
Jean-Denis Cochin,
curé of the parish of
Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas and founder of a hospital for the workers and poor of that quarter of Paris.
Since 1990, a biomedical research centre, the Institut Cochin, has been associated with the hospital. It was reorganised in 2002 to embrace
genetic research,
molecular biology
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and
cellular biology, with a staff of about 600. It is part of both
INSERM and
CNRS, integrated with the
Université Paris Cité.
In 2004 the Maison de Solenn, a shelter for adolescents, was opened within the hospital with the active support of
Bernadette Chirac
Bernadette Thérèse Marie Chirac (; née Chodron de Courcel; born 18 May 1933) is a French politician and the widow of the former president Jacques Chirac.
She and Chirac met as students at Sciences Po, and were married on 16 March 1956. They ...
; its name commemorates
Solenn Poivre d'Arvor.
History
Early in the morning of 30 May 1832, the mathematician
Évariste Galois
Évariste Galois (; ; 25 October 1811 – 31 May 1832) was a French mathematician and political activist. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by Nth root, ...
was shot in the
abdomen
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during a duel at the age of 20 and died the following morning at ten o'clock in the Cochin hospital, probably of
peritonitis, after refusing the offices of a priest. He was buried in a common grave in the
Montparnasse Cemetery
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nearby.
Hôpital Cochin
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George Orwell
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also had a stay at the hospital for a bout of "La Grippe" in March 1929. He describes it in his story " How the Poor Die".
References
External links
Hôpital Cochin
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Year of establishment missing
Cochin, Hopital
Buildings and structures in the 14th arrondissement of Paris