École de Médecine (building)

The facade of the École de Médecine features a long, neoclassical colonnade of Ionic columns that stretches across the street. Built in the seventeen seventies on the site of the former Collège de Bourgogne, the building replaced cramped medieval structures to give surgeons a home that reflected their rising professional status. During the French Revolution, the building became a flashpoint when Charlotte Corday arrived here to assassinate Jean-Paul Marat, who spent his final days working in a nearby bathhouse while suffering from a skin condition.