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Hotel-Buaene
Title: Hotel-Buaene
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 288 | Pages: 1.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Hotel-Buaene
Hotel-Dieu, Beaune
On the third Sunday in November an annual charity auction in the city of Beaune is the centrepiece of three days of festivities known as Les Trois Glorieuses. Wine yielded from 53 hectares of vineyards owned by the local hospitals is auctioned, the prices setting the benchmark for the entire vintage. The oldest hospital and founder of the charity auction is the Hotel-Dieu, or the Hospices de Beaune – an intact medieval treasure, snug in …showed first 75 words of 288 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 288 total…Last Judgement polyptich for the hospital’s chapel. The Rolins supplied an annual grant as well as the vineyards and a saltworks for hospital’s income. The medieval hospice was a place of refuge, medical support and contemplation for the down and out all the way up until 1971, when a modern hospital was finally built in Beaune and the crisp beds of the Hotel-Dieu were made for the last time – when it became a museum.
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