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(French: House of God)

Name applied in general to a large hospital. Specifically, it refers to the hospitals established throughout the West during, the Middle Ages by religious who usually followed the Rule of Saint Augustine. Among the most famous Hotels-Dieu of the present are those at Paris, Quebec, and Montreal.