BUILDING BEYOND THE RAMPART WAS FORBIDDEN UNTIL ABOUT 1600, SO THAT THE KING COULD VIEW THE COUNTRYSIDE FROM HIS WINDOWS AT THE LOUVRE
-- Le Louvre sous Henri IV et Louis XIII by Louis Batiffol, 1930
Les très riches heures du duc Berry / zoom
"ADVICE A FRONDEUR GIVES PARISIANS WHOM HE EXHORTS TO REVOLT AGAINST THE TYRANNY OF CARDINAL MAZARIN"
Imagine the countryside:
(As you turn right on rue Mazarine)
Adapted from a Mappy plan
Adapted from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo, 1854 ed.
Ahead of you will be this sign...
34 rue Mazarine
Until 2020 you could push open the gate, walk down one flight of parking lot stairs...
And come upon a segment of the 13th-century wall:
Claude Abron
Then it was privatized to see the vestige you must rent a parking space:
I pressed on the interphone.
After a long wait someone answered.
Our conversation:
"I'm a Paris guide. Is it still possible to visit the vestige of the medieval city wall?"
"I've never heard of it."
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