The Results of Emancipation (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Results of Emancipation (Classic Reprint) written by Augustin Cochin and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Results of Emancipation The stranger, visiting Paris and admiring its monuments of art, turns aside to examine its more noble monuments of public charity. He visits the Hotel-Dieu, founded by an Archbishop of Paris, endowed by Philip Augustus and St. Louis, enlarged by Henri IV., and enriched by the benefactions of a long line of monarchs. He then, in the Faubourg-Saint-Jacques, visits another hospital, more airy, neater, more commodious, and better ordered, with a smaller proportional mortality than the HotelDieu, giving annual relief to more than 2, 000 patients, founded during the last century by a single man, whose name it still bears, the Hopital-Cochin. Its founder, the Curate of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, was one of a family distinguished for its services in the French magistracy, for its administrative ability, and for its beneficence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."