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 Ventre de Paris Le Ventre de Paris Le Ventre de Paris (1873) is the third novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series "Les Rougon-Macquart". It is set in and around Les Halles, the enormous, busy central market of 19th-century Paris. Les Halles, rebuilt in cast iron and glass during the Second Empire was a landmark of modernity in the city, the wholesale and retail center of a thriving food industry. "Le Ventre de Paris" (translated into English under many variant titles but literally meaning "The Belly of Paris") is Zola's first novel entirely on the working class. The protagonist is Florent, an escaped political