II.1. THE LOGIC OF THE LEGENDARY CORE

THE CITY WALL, PALACES AND RIVER SHOW HOW THE HISTORIC CENTER EVOLVED

Our route follows the ditch outside the rampart, crosses the transgressive territory of outlaws and Protestants, discovers antiquarians whose forefathers settled to be nearer Versailles, crosses the river and strolls through the Louvre's monumental courtyards to the Palais-Royal gardens, where the modern world began...

Adapted from a Google map

      Paris in 1530, with thanks to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Adaptations of this map will be used many times. / zoom

It ends by unveiling recent efforts 

to erase the past itself.

Sites

• A spectral rampart

• Saint-Germain-des-Prés, rampart heir

• Lords step out of the shadows

• Palaces: glory and collapse

• Deliberately erasing the past

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A spectral rampart