The Hotel Dieu was set up in the 1300s or so, to provide care for the sick, and it has been in operation ever since.
It has a beautiful historic building, furnished with some unlikely-looking four-poster beds… although as they have pictures of those actual beds being used to treat WW1 soldiers, maybe they are not that unlikely.
There are comprehensive information panels about how the nuns did their work and lived their lives, quite a bit of which seemed to involve wearing improbable headdresses while tending to suspiciously tidy-looking sick people. But what really made it qualify for #kindnessandingenuity was this picture in the pharmacy.
Isn’t that great? They had some pretty serious distilling kit too, by the way, this was not wafting around waving a bunch of lavender:
