View of the Hôtel-Dieu from the Seine side and the wooden footbridge behind which we can still see the abutment of the Saint-Charles bridge, 1877., Theodor Josef Hubert Hoffbauer, between 1875 and 1882

A view of the remnants of the saint-charles bridge, as well as the back of the hospital known as the hôtel-dieu. In 1772 a large fire destroyed most of the hôtel-dieu and killed many of its patients in the eleven days that it burned. It wasn't until 1877 that the new building, shown here, was inaugurated. Date: between 1875 and 1882. Dimensions: 9.9 x 11.8 cm. Medium: lithograph. Collection: Brown University Library. Vue de l'Hôtel-Dieu du côté de la Seine, 1877