[The military hospital "Parmentier" of Cambrai]

A military hospital was known in Cambrai since 1708. It was located in the very old "Chateau de Selles" after the end of the First Empire with 150 to 300 beds. This hospital was very useful during the war between France and Germany in 1870, but it was not used by the french army during the two world wars, Cambrai beeing the two times invested by the german army. Named "Percy Hospital" during the eighteenth century, it received the name "Parmentier" in 1913. After the Second World War, it was used as an asylum for old men, then converted into courts of justice at the end of the twenteenth century.