MARAIS

1 Saint Jacques Tower

Grand_Châtelet
was a stronghold in Ancien Régime Paris, on the right bank of the Seine, on the site of what is
now the Place du Châtelet; it contained a court and police headquarters and a number of prisons.

The area around the Châtelet was physically unpleasant as well, due to the smell of drying blood
from nearby slaughterhouses and "the effluent of the great sewers that oozed into the Seine
between the Pont Notre-Dame and the Pont-au-Change." [8] In 1790, with the abolition of the office
of prévôt de Paris, the Châtelet lost its function, and as part of the general refurbishment of the
area it was demolished between 1802 and 1810 and the Place du Châtelet created at the north
end of the bridge.

The Tour Saint-Jacques stands alone in the middle of a little garden of the same name. A tower
in the flamboyant Gothic style, built between 1509 and 1523, the Tour Saint-Jacques is the only
remaining vestige of the Eglise Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie destroyed in 1797. This sanctuary
was the meeting point on the Via Toronensis (or Tours route) of the pilgrimage to Santiago de
Compostela (Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle). The statue of Blaise Pascal, at the base of the
tower, is a reminder that it was here that he repeated his barometric experiments carried out in
Puy-de-Dôme. On the north-west corner, a statue of Saint Jacques le Majeur dominates the
platform on which a small meteorological station was established in 1891. It belongs to the
Observatoire de Montsouris. The sculpted symbols of the four evangelists (the lion, bull, eagle
and man), appear on the corners. These statues were restored during the last century, along with
the gargoyles and the 18 statues of saints that decorate the walls of the tower.

 Nerval’s suicide
January 26, 1855

2 Hôtel de Sens
The Hôtel de Sens (French pronunciation: [otɛl də sɑ̃s]) or Hôtel des archevêques de Sens is a
medieval hôtel particulier, or private mansion, in the Marais, in the 4th arrondissement of
Paris, France. It nowadays houses the Forney art library [fr].

The hôtel was built to serve as a residence for the archbishops of Sens. Before 1622, Paris was
not a specific archdiocese, and depended on the diocesan authority of Sens. The archbishop was
a prominent figure of power, his residence reflecting his influence within the urban landscape.
A first hôtel, at this location, was built for the archbishops of Sens in 1345, which was latter used
by Charles V, King of France, as a part of his royal residence, the hôtel Saint-Pol. When the
Kings settled in the newly built Louvre palace, the building was destroyed, only to be replaced by
the current hôtel, built between 1475 and 1519 by Tristian de Salazar and reinstalled as the
residence of the archbishops of Sens.[1] As such, it served as the house of many renowned
prelate, such as Antoine Duprat, Louis de Bourbon de Vendôme, Louis de Lorraine, Nicolas de
Pellevé (who died in the hôtel) or Jacques Davy Duperron. Margaret of Valois also lived there in
1605 and 1606, and her decision to cut a fig tree (figuier) in front of the building is said to have
inspired the name of the street, rue du Figuier.[2]
 A bien national during the French Revolution, it was sold in 1797 and privately owned throughout
the 19th century, housing, like many hôtels particulier in the Marais at the time, shops, workshops
or factories. During the Trois Glorieuses street fights of 1830, a cannonball hit the facade and
lodged deep within the wall ; it is visible nowadays above the main entrance, the date engraved
beneath.

3 Cloister of the Billettes

4 oldest houses in Paris

Rue Francis Miron

Rue de Barres

Nicolas Flamel’s house

5 visit of the Paris historique association

6 enceinte Philippe Auguste

7 rue Pavée

The streets of the Pletzl[edit]

 Rue Pavée
 Rue des Rosiers
 Rue Ferdinand Duval
 Rue des Écouffes
 Rue des Hospitalières-Saint-Gervais
 Rue Vieille du Temple

8 house of Nicolas Flamel

le Grand Pignon, lit. 'the Great Wimperg'

Nicolas Flamel, a wealthy member of the Parisian bourgeoisie, commissioned the house after the
death of his wife Pernelle in 1397, to accommodate the homeless. [2] It was completed in 1407, as
is inscribed on a frieze above the ground floor, and it is the best known and sole surviving of
Flamel's houses, yet he actually never lived there. The house is probably the oldest in Paris. [1

Flamel was a French scribe and manuscript-seller. After his death, Flamel developed a reputation

as an alchemist believed to have discovered the philosopher's stone and to have thereby
achieved immortality. These legendary accounts first appeared in the 17th century.
According to texts ascribed to Flamel almost 200 years after his death, he had learned alchemical
secrets from a Jewish converso on the road to Santiago de Compostela. He has since appeared
as a legendary alchemist in various fictional works.

9 Arts et métiers

Founded in 1794 by Henri Grégoire, the Conservatoire national des arts et

métiers, "a store of new and useful inventions," is a museum of technological
innovation. The Musée des arts et métiers was refurbished in 2000, and now
exhibits over 2,400 inventions. They are split into seven collections Scientific
instruments, Materials, Energy, Mechanics, Construction, Communication and
Transport.
Since its foundation, the museum has been housed in the deserted priory of Saint-Martin-des-
Champs, in the rue Réaumur in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. Today the museum, which
underwent major renovation in 1990, includes an additional building adjacent to the abbey, with
larger objects remaining in the abbey itself.

he oldest known structure on the site was a chapel dedicated to St. Martin of Tours, founded
during the Merovingian dynasty, which appears in a text of 710.

In 1060, King Henry I of France chose to rebuild the complex of the former abbey, intending it
then to be a priory of canons regular. At that era, it still remained outside the walls of the city, thus
its designation as des champs (in the fields). In 1079 the priory was given to St. Hugh of
Cluny and became a Benedictine community, which developed into one of the major houses of
the Congregation of Cluny,[1] The priory soon gained major landholdings throughout the region,
becoming second in importance only to the Royal Abbey of St-Denis.[2]
The priory church was completed in 1135, having a choir section with a double ambulatory,
topped by a simple ribbed arch. The nave was completed during the 13th century, as was
the refectory of the priory. The later two are attributed to Pierre de Montreuil. 

Les Ursulines, qui ont fait construire ce bâtiment, s'y sont installées à partir de 1641. C’est dans ce
couvent, situé rue des Ursulines, que le jeune roi Louis XIV et sa mère, Anne d'Autriche, logèrent en
1652, au cours de leur séjour à Saint-Denis pendant la Fronde. L’Assemblée Nationale ayant décrété
la suppression des communautés religieuses et l’évacuation des maisons pieuses, en 1792, les
religieuses quittèrent les lieux. Seule subsista, jusqu'en 1822, l'école pour jeunes filles qui ferma
lorsque la Mère parent ne fut plus en mesure de la diriger du fait de son grand âge. Le couvent
changera ensuite plusieurs fois de fonction et de propriétaires. Hôpital militaire puis siège de la sous-
préfecture, il fut vendu à la fin du XIXe siècle et abrite aujourd'hui des habitations privées.

House of Nicolas Flamel

Rue du Temple

En 1607, la ville de Paris souhaite lutter contre le risque d’incendie. Elle décide donc de poser
des règles d’urbanisme fort. En effet, il est alors décidé que les pignons sont interdit. En outre,
les poutres apparentes devaient être recouvertes. 
Être dans les petits pepiers

Visit to the medieval Marais

Jewish neighborhood

Hôtel de Sens

Marécage: a branch

Rue François Miron, de la rue perchée

Rue du Temple : Templar turf

All these names250 hectares :

Rue des archives : hôtel de Clisson, national archives (the oldest medieval building of Paris)

Many of these things were destroyed

Hôtel de Sens

End of the 15 century

bought

250 hectares :

Enceinte de Philippe Auguste : 80 m (feet)

1180 1215

250 hectares 

 Au siège même de l’association : paris histoire

Maisons

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Maisons à Colombage

Civil architecture sens

24 rue des archives: le dernier cloître médiéval de la ville de paris, le cloître des billettes

The house of Nicolas Flamel, at No. 52, which was built in 1407 by Nicolas Flamel himself still
stands, the oldest stone house in Paris, at 51 rue de Montmorency;[3] the ground floor, always a
tavern, currently houses the Auberge Nicolas Flamel. Nicolas Flamel, a scrivener and
manuscript-seller who developed a reputation as an alchemist, claimed that he made
the Philosopher's Stone which turns lead into gold, and that he and his wife Pernelle
achieved immortality. Engraved images were discovered during recent works on this house.
l’hôtel de Sens, où eut lieu un terrible drame rattaché au souvenir de la reine Margot qui
égorgea devant la cour médiévale de son hôtel l’un de ses amants !

The cloister was built in 1427 for the convent of the

Brothers of Charity Hospital of Our Lady, also called
Billettes. The first church on the site was raised in 1294.
It was rebuilt in the mid-18th century in neo-Classical
style. The cloister itself faced a series of restoration. It
was surmounted by residential buildings in the 17th and
19th centuries.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The
Billettes cloister is rather small. It
comprises four galleries bordered by
flamboyant arches. The vaulted
galleries show simple Gothic ribbed
vaults.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The
cloister and the adjoining church
were desecrated at the French
Revolution. In 1808, Napoleon
authorised the City of Paris to
acquire the church and its cloister to
be a place of worship for the
Lutheran community in the French
capital.</p>