Hospital Politics in Seventeenth-Century France: The Crown, Urban Elites and the Poor by Tim McHugh (Paperback, 2017)

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It suggests that Louis XIV's policy regarding the reform of poor relief and the creation of General Hospitals in each town and city, as enshrined in the edict of 1662, was largely driven by the religious concerns of the kingdom's devout and the financial fears of the Parisian elites that their city hospitals were overburdened.