DISCOVERING "LES TISSUS FRANÇAIS" MEANS PASSING THROUGH A 17TH-CENTURY SLUM...
Where lived sorcerers, poisoners and slaughterers of children for black masses.
Adapted from a Mappy plan
Yellow indicates a site...
It was still further from the center than rue du Bout du Monde.* Police did not venture and marginal people settled there, as in as in 16th-century Saint-Germain.
*"Street at the end of the world"
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Adapted from a plan of 1676 / zoom |
Red shows our route.
Rue Beauregard ("beautiful view") refers to the slope from which one saw the countryside beyond the city wall, and rue de Cléry, which led to a neighboring gate, brought the name Le Sentier ("The Path").
It's a slope because garbage would be deposited next to the city wall. Rubble was added when it was demolished (in 1674).
The slope
France's most notorious serial killer, poisoner Catherine La Voisin, lived on n° 24 of this street and was arrested on the steps of this church:
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Notre-Dame de Bonne Nouvelle
Boulevard Saint-Denis by Jean Béraud, toward 1900 / zoom
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