NOW A STREET THAT IS PLEASANT AND PEDESTRIAN

MEDIEVAL VESTIGES AND ELEGANT 18TH-CENTURY HOUSES

IN A SETTING OF MODERN COOL

A hostel for pilgrims that was just within the rampart, a passage that separated Catholic and Protestant graves homes of wealthy merchants...

Rue Greneta, to the right of rue Saint-Denis

Steps away, arches highlight the "noble floor," because it has only one flight of stairs to climb over a courtyard for horses, carriages and kitchen.

The ambiance now is amiably commercial, with small houses that give a sense of intimacy.

Corner, rues Saint-Denis and Greneta

One block away, those houses change:

More later.

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