Datant du XVIe siècle, la Petite France doit son nom à l’hôpital qui y était installé pour soigner les soldats de François Ier atteints du " Mal français ", que nous, Français, appelions le " mal de Naples ", c'est-à-dire la petite vérole, plus connue aujourd’hui sous le nom de syphilis.
Plus tard, ce quartier fut celui des tanneurs, meuniers et pêcheurs.
Today a beautiful postcard of Strasbourg, and more particularly the district of "Petite France ", which is a real Venice of the North, with its canals and narrow streets. There are many half-timbered houses. Dating from the sixteenth century, the “Petite France” owes its name to the hospital who was installed to treat the soldiers of King François I, suffering of 'French disease', as we, French, call the "evil of Naples", ie in fact the small pox, known today as syphilis.
Later, this area was that of the tanners, millers and fishermen.
Merci Gwladys
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