Corvisart: history and sights
Served by: metro line 6.
Did you know?
Named after Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, Napoleon I's personal physician and a pioneer of modern cardiology, who helped popularise percussion as a diagnostic method.
Anecdote
Corvisart introduced chest percussion to France as a method for diagnosing heart and lung disease.
Around Corvisart
- Butte-aux-Cailles, 280 m away — A former village of cobbled lanes and low houses, spared from Haussmann's grand renovations.
- Piscine de la Butte-aux-Cailles, 400 m away — An Art Deco pool fed by a natural artesian spring discovered in 1863.
- Place d'Italie, 500 m away — A vast crossroads in the 13th arrondissement, the gateway to Paris's Chinatown.