Background
Guigone de Salins was born into the land-owning family Salins-la-Tour in Jura (part of the commune Salins-les-Bains in the Free County of Burgundy).
Guigone de Salins was born into the land-owning family Salins-la-Tour in Jura (part of the commune Salins-les-Bains in the Free County of Burgundy).
She is the third child of Étienne de Salins-la-Tour and Louise de Rye. Rolin was a wealthy chancellor to Duke Philippe le Bon (ruler of the State of Burgundy). Together they had three children: Louise, Claudine and Antoine Rollin.
This was created as a hospital for the poor, and is unique for its time in its secular approach.
Salins furnished the rooms of the hospital with art so that the sick could feel as though they were being treated in a comfortable, even palatial environment. She is also depicted in a statue in the courtyard of the Hôtel-Dieu.