Hôtel-Dieu
FORMER HOSPITAL IN FRENCH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES
Hôtel-Dieu Hospital; Hotel Dieu Hospital; Hotel Dieu; Hotel-Dieu; Hôtel Dieu; Hotel Dieu Hospital (disambiguation); Hôtel-Dieu (disambiguation); Hotel Dieu (disambiguation); Hotel de Dieu; Hôtel Dieu (disambiguation); Hopital Hotel-Dieu; Hotel Dieu Hospital (El Paso, Texas)
In French-speaking countries, a hôtel-Dieu () was originally a hospital for the poor and needy, run by the Catholic Church. Nowadays these buildings or institutions have either kept their function as a hospital, the one in Paris being the oldest and most renowned, or have been converted into hotels, museums, or general purpose buildings (for instance housing a préfecture, the administrative head office of a French department).