It commemorates Jean-Denis Cochin, curé of the parish of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas and founder of a hospital for the workers and poor of that quarter of Paris.
In March 1929 he was feeling unwell and spent two weeks in the Hôpital Cochin, rue Faubourg Saint-Jacques, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.
Cochin | Cochin University of Science and Technology | Kingdom of Cochin | Hôpital Saint-Louis | Travancore-Cochin | Greater Cochin | Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder | Hôpital Cochin | Hôpital civil, Strasbourg | l'Hôpital de la Conception | Jean-Denis Cochin | Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois | ''Hôpital Auxilaire 1918'' by Norah Neilson Gray | Anglican Bishop of Travancore and Cochin |