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# At the Paul Éluard Museum of Art and History in Saint-Denis, the exhibition "Believing and Healing. And Deliver Us from Evil" runs until 15 November
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- Published: 2026-07-27T15:36:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:25:32.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Coming Up, Faith, Museums, Science, Paris

At the Paul Éluard Museum of Art and History in Saint-Denis, housed within the walls of a former Carmelite convent of 1625, 400 metres from the Basilica of Saint-Denis, the burial place of the kings of France, the exhibition "Believing and Healing. And Deliver Us from Evil" runs until 15 November.

The exhibition, of national significance, is devoted to how illness was explained and whom people trusted to cure it: gods, saints, folk healers, herbs, magic, and later anatomy and science. Among the exhibits are the collection of an old apothecary's shop and the collection of the old Hôtel-Dieu of Saint-Denis itself, eighteenth-century pharmacy jars from Rouen, amulets, reliquaries, anatomical tables, an eighteenth-century papier-mâché medical mannequin, a facsimile of Pasteur's swan-neck flask, as well as items from the Academy of Medicine and contemporary art.

The exhibition shows how hard it is for a person to rid himself of magical thinking when it concerns his own body, and brings the thought home to our own society, so dependent on medication.

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