BUILDING IN THE FIELDS BEYOND THE RAMPART WAS FORBIDDEN UNTIL ABOUT 1600, SO THAT THE KING COULD VIEW THE COUNTRYSIDE FROM HIS WINDOWS AT THE LOUVRE
-- The Louvre under Henri IV and Louis XIII by Louis Batiffol, 1930 (in French)
The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry / zoom
"ADVICE A FRONDEUR GIVES PARISIANS WHOM HE EXHORTS TO REVOLT AGAINST THE TYRANNY OF CARDINAL MAZARIN"
Imagine the gate and countryside as you turn right:
(On rue Mazarine)
Adapted from The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 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
But then it was privatized and you cannot see the vestige unless you 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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