[1][2] Founded in the 12th century, this faculty was one of the ‘companies’ of the ancient University of Paris and was housed in the Hôtel de la Bûcherie until 1775, when it moved to the former École des Décrets on rue Jean-de-Beauvais before being closed in 1793.

12, while the Faculty of Health of Université Paris-Cité, its UFR of Medicine, as well as the Presidency of Sorbonne University and its Cordeliers Research Centre occupy no.

12) and the former Cordeliers convent, which had become national property, were allocated to the new health school, and classes began in January 1795.

The eastern part of the cloister of the Cordeliers convent was assigned to the Faculty, which retained its layout and even used the stones for its reconstruction.

[3] In 1835, the faculty created the Dupuytren Museum in the refectory building of the Cordeliers convent, at the same time as Jean Cruveilhier, a pupil of Guillaume Dupuytren, anatomist and professor of medicine, created a chair of pathological anatomy within the faculty.