APOTHECARY OF THE CHAPEL OF MERCY IN MONTPELLIER

Heir to a humanist dream, curio cabinets, libraries or natural history cabinets, this apothecary's shop has a wide variety of furniture related to the manufacture, classification and presentation of the pharmacopoeia. Thus one finds there a druggist, woodwork with shelves, pots and preparation instruments. A formidable step back in time! The apothecaries of the Saint-Eloi and Saint-Charles hospitals having disappeared, this is the last apothecary in Montpellier. The furniture, portraits of founders and donors on display also allow visitors to plunge into the history of an little-known institution, the Œuvre de la Miséricorde de Montpellier, a house of charity and relief created in the 17th century by women and nuns to relieve physical, mental or social distress.