II.3.3.a. MEDIEVAL SPIRITS LINGER

MENU: 2.3.3.a. Medieval spirits linger  

THE WALK BEGINS BY PASSING A CEMETERY, THE WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET AND  RAMPARTS BUILT FARTHER AND FARTHER FROM THE CENTER  

All of them intangibly remain.  

  Paris in 1530 / zoom

These pages explain how

• Traces of a prison and countryside

• A cemetery that bewilders

• The "Court of Miracles"

• That territory now

• Detour: a prostitute who (almost) rose up from the street

• The huge open space at city's heart

• "Les Halles," above ground and below it

• Specters emerge from the cemetery

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Traces of a prison and countryside