The Priory of St Lazare,  (107 Rue du Faubourg Saint Denis, Paris, 10th Arrondissement) in the area which now includes  the Gare du Nord  and the Church of St Vincent de Paul, was Vincent de Paul's home for the latter part of his life, after the Congregation of the Mission moved there from the College des Bons Enfants.  The property seems to have dated back to the 6th Century. In Vincent's time it consisted of   the Priory and other buildings, farm and orchards, and was under the administration of the Canons of St Victor until handed over to the Congregation of the Mission in 1632.  As well as being a Priory for the Canons, the property had housed a Leprosarium, a Lunatic Asylum,  and the Court of Justice for the area.

St Lazare was sacked at the time of the French Revolution (the day before the Bastille was stormed - apparently the mob practiced on the CMs!), lost to the Congregation of the Mission and eventually demolished, but reminders  of its former presence, and the work of Vincent de Paul, still exist.  One  reminder is the original St Lazare Crest, now on the wall of a building of the Hospital St Lazare at the end of  the small Square Alban Satragne. The Crest depicts Lazarus being raised from the dead.

The Crest of Old St Lazare

Except for a  portion of a wall, the actual buildings of St Lazare have now disappeared. However, Jeffrey Wrona, a Chicago USA artist, has constructed an exhibit entitled "The Clos Saint-Lazare, Paris, and its Neighborhood in the Time of St Vincent de Paul and his First Successors, ca. 1630-1792". The exhibit features an original diorama of the property as it appeared in 1783, just prior to the French Revolution. Details of this diorama can be found in  the article:   Zurawski, Simone, "Saint-Lazare in the Ancien Regime -  From Saint Vincent de Paul to the French Revolution", Vincentian Heritage, Volume 14, Number 1, (1993), 15-35.  The photos below from the above article give us some idea of the extent and size of  the Enclosure of Saint Lazare  in 1783:

A striking image of Vincent de Paul is located in the area which was once part of St Lazare.   It was constructed in 1988 on the end of a five story apartment building which had been built in the early 18th Century by the Vincentians, and consists of 'ribs' of black metal of varying sizes fixed at right angles to the wall.  The mural is by artist Yvaral, and is situated at the edge of the  Square Alban Satragne in the 10th Arrondissement, not far from the Gare du Nord.

A memorial to Vincent de Paul has been set up in the park in the  Square Alban Satragne.  Some street names in the area remind us of past times - Cour de la Ferme Saint Lazare and Passage de la Ferme Saint Lazare.