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It is at the time when the hospital was built and organized that the traditions of language of the care discipline began to emerge and thus find their singularity. Symbols of the central power of the urban bourgeoisie in the legal sense, some of these hospital buildings underwent successive major architectural changes or were rebuilt (more beautiful and larger than before)¹. In this particular space and time, of prime importance in determining the place of emergence of what would later become the nursing discipline and its knowledge, stood a language of a welcoming nature, a form of life support and protection of human beings similar to that held by an ordinary housewife or mother looking after the home, her spouse, children, parents and other relatives.

NOTE.– Here, it is important to distinguish between the different places of care and not to mix everything together. We can have a space in which a religious language is shaped by the values of the hierarchy of the Church, sacred or doctrinal texts (practical charity of the Church, alms, hospitality, works of mercy, etc.). These religious spaces were first created in Catholic regions and then in Protestant regions. There are also public secular spaces whose organization and functioning sometimes differ from those of the Hôtel-Dieu (the French municipal or communal hospital, often dependent on the bourgeois fiefdom) built by the patricians of a city.