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For a long time, it was a bohemian neighborhood.
Not far from the Place Denfert-Rochereau, around the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul hospital, which has been welcoming sick children since Victor Hugo, some fifty painters and sculptors' studios were set up.
Apollinaire and Picasso passed there, observing the nuns' white cornets.
Later, André Malraux, Minister of Cultural Affairs at De Gaulle, would veto any new construction threatening the spirit of the place and the fragility of the sand foundations.
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The hospital closed in 2010. Its nursing staff were transferred to the Cochin Hospital Center.
Its brick buildings, its porch and its 17th century oratory were sold by the Assistance Publique to the city of Paris.
It was the end of the reign of socialist mayor Bertrand Delanoë.
What was he going to do with those 3.4 hectares?
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