The founders of the Hospices de Beaune

2022-06-23T14:52:19.539Z

In the first half of the 15th century, the Hundred Years War raged. In Burgundy, the city of Beaune suffers from misery and famine. The skinners loot the countryside and the people of Beaune are declared destitute. In 1443, Nicolas Rolin, Chancellor of the Duke of Burgundy and Guigone de Salins, his wife, founded a hospital and created a new religious order. Since then, the elderly, the infirm, the sick, parturients and the destitute have frequented this institution. Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach looks back on the history of the Hospices de Beaune.