On the spot – Paris (6): Hôpital Saint-Louis
The Saint-Louis hospital is over 400 years old
On the spot – Paris (4) – The passages
We start this On the spot at the place where On the spot number 3 ended. We have just walked through the short passage de Beaujolais and are now in the R. de Richelieu. We turn right and then left again, into the Rue des petits champs
On the spot – Paris (5) – Montmartre
We have just left the last passage and are now on our way to Montmartre. It is still a long walk (and uphill), but if you walk this route separately, i.e. not in connection with the passages, you can also start at Place Blanche. You can get there by metro 2, getting off at Place Blanche. However, you will miss the Musée de la vie romantique, as well as the walk.
Scoop. News about art and medicine
Scoop 19 January 17th, 2026In this episode, a powerful novel (The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store) about—among many other things—a corrupt doctor in the racist and ethnically divided America of the 1920s and 1930s, a film (Vie privée) about a psychiatrist, an ophthalmologist, and a patient of the former who committed suicide, and finally the …
On the spot – Paris (3) – Palais-Royal
The Palais-Royal plays an important role in (medical) novels, such as in The wild ass’s skin by Honoré de Balzac, Le malade imaginaire by Molière, and The Bells of Bicêtre by Georges Simenon.
Scoop 18: January 3 2026
Better late than never, we turn our attention to two novels that are among the finest published in the past year: Ocean Vuong’s The Emperor of Gladness and In My Eyes I Wear Clouds by psychiatrist Forugh Karimi. We also discuss two films about, among other things, the roots and consequences of addiction: Urchin and The Chronology of Water.