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=== The 1832 cholera epidemic ===
The [[cholera]] [[pandemic]] that originated in India in 1815 reached Paris around 20 March 1832 and killed more than 13,000 people in April. The pandemic would last until September 1832, killing in total 100,000 in France, with 20,000 in Paris alone.<ref name=cholera>{{cite web|url=http://www.amicale-genealogie.org/Histoires_temps-passe/Epidemies/chol01.htm |title=Le Choléra |first=Amicale Généalogie |last=La Petite Gazette Généalogique |access-date=10 April 2006 |language=fr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060223134543/http://www.amicale-genealogie.org/Histoires_temps-passe/Epidemies/chol01.htm |archive-date=23 February 2006 }}</ref> The disease, the origins of which were unknown at the time, provoked a popular panic. The people of Paris suspected poisoners, while scavengers and beggars revolted against the authoritarian measures of [[public health]].

According to the 20th-century historian and philosopher {{lang|fr|[[Michel Foucault]]|italic=no}}, the cholera outbreak was first fought by what he called "social medicine", which focused on flux, circulation of air, location of cemeteries, etc. All of these concerns, born of the [[miasma theory of disease]], were thus concerned with [[urbanism|urbanist]] concerns of the management of populations.

Cholera also struck the royal princess {{lang|fr|[[Adélaïde d'Orléans|Madame Adélaïde]]|italic=no}}, as well as {{lang|fr|[[d'Argout]]|italic=no}} and {{lang|fr|[[Guizot]]|italic=no}}. {{lang|fr|Casimir Périer|italic=no}}, who on 1 April 1832 visited the patients at the {{lang|fr|[[Hôtel-Dieu de Paris|Hôtel-Dieu]]|italic=no}} with the Prince Royal, contracted the disease. He resigned his ministerial activities before dying of cholera on 16 May 1832.