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 Mappy
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 a flight of parking lot stairs...
And come upon a segment of the 13th-century wall:
Claude Abron
Now it is 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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