La gésine Pillore

The widow of Doctor Marie Jean Henry Pillore, who died in 1857, bequeathed the sum of 200,000 gold francs to the Hospices de Rouen, in accordance with her husband's wishes, in order to build a modern maternity ward, on condition that the pediment of its façade be inscribed "Gésine Pillore".

In 1859, the Administrative Commission of the Hospices approved the estimate for the construction of this new building, which was to replace the hospital's first gesine, built in 1855 and which quickly proved to be insufficient.

This three-storey building, completed in 1864 and running along the rue Edouard Adam, was of classical brick and stone construction, like the other buildings of the Hospice Général built in the 18th and 19th centuries.

A cement canopy, added later, disfigures the façade and hides an oval white marble medallion bearing, according to Doctor Pillore's wishes, the inscription "Maternité-Legs Pillore-1864".

In 1946, the opening of the new surgery and maternity wing of the Hôtel-Dieu, the Derocque wing, led to the transfer of this Pillore maternity ward to the Hôtel-Dieu.

It was the digestive diseases department that occupied the Pillore pavilion until 1992, when it was assigned to administrative services.