Built by a wealthy Beaune couple after the plague of 1628–1631, the Hospice de la Charité began as a refuge for orphans whose parents had perished in the outbreak.

Its founders, Barbe Deslandes and Antoine Rousseau, assembled a cluster of houses dating from the 15th and 16th centuries into a single charitable institution. Today, it continues as a working retirement home, one of several institutions that collectively form the Hospices of Beaune.

The 17th-century chapel façade gives little away from the street: sober vases, scroll-shaped volutes and an onion-shaped bell tower hint at restrained elegance rather than grandeur.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours of Beaune use the Hospice de la Charité to trace the city's long tradition of charitable architecture, placing it alongside the Hôtel-Dieu and other Hospice institutions to show how private wealth and civic conscience shaped this wine capital's streets.