Paris in the Middle Ages and the clergy of Paris, followed by the members of religious orders and representatives of all the guilds and professions of the city. A similar procession took place from the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève on the Left Bank to Saint-Denis, including the students and faculty of the University. According to tradition, the first Paris hospital, the Hôtel Dieu, was founded in 651 by Saint Landry, the Bishop of Paris. It was first mentioned in texts in 829. It was located on the southern side of the Île de la Cité between the river and the parvis of Notre Dame, which gave it
Le Spleen de Paris specific examples leading to an unexpected conclusion may have influenced Baudelaire in his creation of "Le Spleen de Paris"." Aloysius Betrand's "Gaspard de la nuit": Baudelaire himself is quoted as citing this work as an inspiration for "Paris Spleen". Gustave Flaubert: Magazine article "No ideas but in Crowds: Baudelaire's "Paris Spleen"" cites similarities between the writers in that like Baudelaire, Flaubert held the same motives and intentions in that he too wanted "to write the moral history of the men of my generation – or, more accurately, the history of their feelings." Critical reception: The way in which the poem