HOTEL-DIEU, the term applied in France to any hospital in the middle ages, now reserved to those whose history goes back to mediaeval times. Many examples from the Gothic period still remain, notably that of Angers 0'53-84), the so-called salle des morts at Ourscamps (early 13th century), and that of Tonnerre (c. 1300). In all of these, the most important feature is a vast hall in which were placed the beds for the sick. In the two earliest the hall is divided into three aisles by pillars and vaulted so that four rows of beds on either side of the pillars were possible. At Tonnerre the great hall, nearly 6o ft. wide and 30o ft. long, was roofed with wooden trusses and had a wooden barrel vault ceiling. The beds were in little chambers along the sides, open to super vision from a gallery that ran continuously around the side-walls immediately below the window sills. At Beaune, the Hotel-Dieu, founded in 1443, is of quite different character, occupying three sides of a courtyard, in two storeys. In addition to the halls for the sick, various other rooms for the use of the nuns were fur nished. The whole is a picturesque Gothic timber construction.