[1] This was tried but evidently, in 1620, the hospital ended up being too small to fit all of the paupers of the city and the Grenoblois did not want to pay for an enlargement.
After the death of Lesdiguières, his son-in-law and heir, Duke of Crequi arranged a meeting with a few magistrates and proposed the Hospital General (1620).
And on the fourth side would be the chapel and sacristy where the priests would live, along with the nuns, orphaned children, and all other employees of the Hospital.
"[2] On July 17, 1638, twenty-four noble women walked in hand with twelve orphans through the streets of the city and to the Hospital.
There, they held a special mass and the women took the children to a section of the Hospital which would, from that day forward, be named the Orphans hospice.
[3] While the hospital helped inmates within the facility such as the Madelines and the Orphans, a different group of benefactors silently worked their way into the rest of the city.
The Grenoble Brothers discussed this plan to rid the city of begging and cone the poor, and they were well aware of the things stopping them from doing so.
[5] On August 25, 1712, paupers of the city all dined together, then marched, single file, to the Hospital General, where they changed from their rags to new clothes.
But finally, in 1726 the directors were able to finish the building and complete the vision that the original founders had when creating the Hospital.
In these years the directors kept the record of the name, profession, birth date and place, occupation, illness, and the number of dependents for every poor person receiving bread from the Hospital.
The most obvious is that most recipients of bread were in their prime years of age, unlike the majority percentage of elderly in the Hospital.
Men usually had ambulations or broken limbs, while women commonly had bad eyesight and lung disease.
Usually, what would cause a man to ask for the aid of the Hospital would be a sort of illness, injury, bad harvests or other personal issues that would lower that family's income for the time being.
Take Georges Giraud for example, he was a 46-year-old flax weaver, and in the span of a month he lost an arm and had his supplies stolen from him.
But the Hospital had found itself once again with many financial issues, and not able to maintain all of its dependents or even the building itself which was starting to fall in pieces.
The wealthiest of the directors was Claude Perier, known as Perier-Milord owner of a cloth enterprise, and a wallpaper factory at his castle in Vizille.
In 1781 they set new regulations and this time they appointed a superior, who would punish the other young ladies if they neglected the inmates or spent too long outside of the hospital running errands.
They began to give bread only to those in extremely desperate need and did not consider un-employment or low wages an excuse.
[14] A person's bread card would be removed if they: In the past, the directors would hold weekly meetings where paupers could come and explain why they were in need of aid from the Hospital.
And the majority of the poor, who were illiterate would simply hire someone to write their petition, causing the directors to have an influx of letters that were almost identical.
The directors began to slowly ignore the majority of the poor, leaving that task to the king and his courts.