II.1. THE LOGIC OF THE LEGENDARY CORE

THE CITY WALL, PALACES AND RIVER SHOW HOW THE HISTORIC CENTER EVOLVED

• We follow the ditch outside the rampart.

• Explain how that territory of outlaws and Protestants led to a neighborhood famous for intellectuality.

• Discover antiquarians whose forefathers settled to be nearer Versailles.

• Crosses the river and strolls through monumental courtyards to gardens where the modern world began... .

      Paris in 1530, with thanks to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Adaptations of this map will be used many times. / zoom

First part of the walk

Adapted from a Google map

Second part.

Sites

• A spectral rampart

• Saint-Germain-des-Prés, rampart heir

• Lords step out of the shadows

• Palaces: glory and collapse

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A spectral rampart