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Marie-Louise Lachapelle

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Who is Marie Louise Lachapelle ?

 

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Marie-Louise Lachapelle

 

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Secrets d'Histoire -La Grande Mademoiselle, une rebelle sous Louis XIV - Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce

 

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La comédienne Andrée Lachapelle est morte à 88 ans

 

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Gallimard : La chapelle Brancacci

Marie-Louise Lachapelle was a French midwife, head of obstetrics at the Hôtel-Dieu, the oldest hospital in Paris. She published textbooks about women’s bodies, gynecology, and obstetrics. She argued against forceps deliveries and wrote Pratique des accouchements, long a standard obstetric text, which promoted natural deliveries. Lachapelle is generally regarded as the mother of modern obstetrics.