Grand Hall

As soon as you enter the building of the headquarters of Université Paris Descartes in Paris (12, rue de l'Ecole de Médecine) you are in the Grand Hall with a beautiful collection of medical busts and monuments of scientists and teachers of this ancient School of Medicine.

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From the entrance, following the room clockwise you can find the busts of

Gabriel Andral

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Philippe-Frédéric Blandin

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Louis Jules Béhier

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Jean-Nicolas Corvisart

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André Chantemesse

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Auguste Nélaton

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Antoine-Joseph Jobert de Lamballe

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Pierre Paul Broca

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Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud

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Stanislas Laugier

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Unknown (C. F. Michel Pe…r)?

Then, after Felix Terrier's statue, you find the busts of

Jean-Baptiste Dumas

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Léon Rostan

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Antoine Lavoisier

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François Damaschino

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Jean Fernel

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Adolphe-Marie Gubler

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Philippe Pinel

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And finally a bust with no name…

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  • Photos by Luca Borghi ti.supmacinu|ihgrob.l#| (July 2014)


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