| Summary: | From 1720, André-Hercule de Fleury, the lord abbot of Tournus, had a ‘charity house’ built in his town for the accommodation and care of valid indigents and orphans. The apothecary store of this establishment, forgotten since the nineteenth century, was rediscovered and restored in the 1980s. In 2010, after the decision to sell this charity hospital (property of the local hospital), the town of Tournus, in agreement with the hospital and the regional cultural authorities, agreed to move the collection to the Hôtel-Dieu-Greuze Museum in the centre of town. The collection did not enjoy any historic monument protection and it was consequently a private sponsor who financed this move in 2011. In the visit, the apothecary store has been installed in one of the rooms of the Greuze museum, not far from another apothecary, created at the Hôtel-Dieu in 1685. The public can thus compare two extremely rare decorative ensembles, coming from different periods and with different spirits.
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