Thomas jefferson's university of virginia and the paris hospitals on the eve of the french revolution

Abstract

I will observe to you that wonderful improvements are making here in various lines. In architecture the wall of circumvallation round Paris and the palaces by which we are to be let in and out are nearly compleated [sic], 4 hospitals are to be built instead of the old Hotel-Dieu, one of the old bridges has all it's [sic] houses demolished and a second nearly so, a new bridge is begun at the Place Louis XV.3 Thomas Jefferson's five years in Paris as American ambassador (1784–1789) saw a period of dynamic urban growth, public health reform 12 and massive building projects, both public and private in the French capital—churches, hospitals, monumental toll houses, schools, theatres, public squares, bridges, markets and hotels particuliers? Jefferson acknowledged as much in a letter of 14 August 1787:. © 1992, Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.