A TRACE OF THE PAST AND A SIGN OF THE FUTURE

FACING THE PASSAGE IS A BOOKSTORE, VESTIGE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF EDITORS AND BOOKSTORES 

Librairie du Camée

70 rue Saint-André-des-Arts

Next to it until 2020 was a traditional restaurant that was excellent and inexpensive, which a jovial patron ran:  

Vins et Terroirs

66 Rue Saint-André des Arts

A shop for gadgets replaced it, then an Asian fast food:

Around the corner is another bookstore: "Would you accept to be in the photo?," I asked the client in the picture below. "It would show the venerable district of editors and bookstores."

Yellow arrows show where something is.

Librairie François Chanut

41 rue Mazarine

 

"Publish it soon!" he answered, "Before the last disappear."

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Turn left from the passage — the rampart ditch —  to the crossroads where was the Buci gate:

During the Saint-Bartholomew's Day massacre the Duke of Guise, head of the Catholics, wished to slaughter the Protestants who lived outside that gate. Like all the great lords he possessed keys to the gates, but in the explosivity of the moment he mistook the key and the residents fled. 

-- Le XVI siècle by Jules Michelet, III, ed.1966, p. 134 

(Lords possessing the keys, the historian Pascal Payen-Appenzeller; explosivity of the moment, my conjecture).

To understand the Protestant presence in that particular place, please click on.  

Just beyond it is Saint-Germain-des-PRÉS 

("in the fields"),

 outside the wall.

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The rampart vestige in a parking lot