The title Petite-France (“Minor France”) was not offered for patriotic or architectural factors. It comes from the “hospice of the syphilitic” (Hospice des Vérolés, in French), which was designed in the late fifteenth century on this island, to heal individuals with syphilis, then referred to as Franzosenkrankheit (“French condition”) in German. Petite France is a… Continue reading Strassburg..Petite France…”to the city of Argentoratum, which they now call Strateburgus”), where he was exiled, or hoarding gold mined in the nearby rivers.