Hôpital Caroline

This major work of Michel-Robert Penchaud (1772-1833), this sanitary establishment was conceived as a "machine to cure" yellow fever. However, by the time it was returned to the health authorities in 1828, this terrible scourge no longer threatened the Mediterranean basin.

Rehabilitated by the architect Vaucher, the Caroline Hospital became the new lazaretto of Marseilles, after the destruction of the continental lazaretto of Arenc around 1850. Its activity is still mentioned during the...