II.4. TO DO WITH CHILDREN OR WITHOUT THEM

MENU: 2.4. To do with children (or without them)

STREET ART, A MINI-FOREST, DIVERSITY AND THE LOUVRE  

     Rue du Moulin des Prés, 13th

In brief 

• If you come with little boys (adapt to little girls)

• Street art and a true story that becomes a game for kids

• A mini-wood where children play

• New horizons

• The Louvre through kids' sharp eyes

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II.4.1. 

If you come with little boys (adapt to little girls)

II.4.1. IF YOU COME WITH LITTLE BOYS (ADAPT TO LITTLE GIRLS)

TAKE THEM ALONG THE MEDIEVAL TRADE ROUTE (rue Saint-Denis: account here)

It passes through the important site for boys' and young men's casual clothes in Europe.

It comes from a cemetery, where everyone came to meet, fight, sell, flirt, party.

  

Tell them about the "Court of Miracles", which you then pass through:  

You will then pass through a neighborhood where lived a witch who sold poisons. 

When it came out that the king's favorite (official girlfriend) had been a client, the scandal shook the kingdom.

 

      Supposed portrait of Madame de Montespan, a famous royal mistress (workshop of Pierre Mignard) / zoom

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You will walk toward an arch of triumph that towers over the route: please click.

 

The king who built the arch was Louis XIV, the Sun King. On his deathbed he said to his heir, 

"My child, you will be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I had for war; try on the contrary, to have peace with your neighbors and to relieve your subjects, which unfortunately I did not do."

Le Roy Soleil by Gustave Toudouze

    By Maurice Leloir, a famous illustrator, in a history book for children of 1931.

That France's most famous king 

was sorry he'd gone to war 

can end the story.

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II.4.2.

Street art and a true story that becomes a game for kids

II.4.2. STREET ART AND A TRUE STORY THAT BECOMES A GAME FOR KIDS

MENU: 2.4.2.Street art & true story

 PEOPLE COME TO PHOTOGRAPH THE WALLS OF "BUTTE AUX CAILLES,"* ON THE SOUTHEASTERN FRINGE

* "Quail hilltop"

Photos taken in 2020: The pictures change, the spirit doesn't.

For kids a game,

for adults discovering a neighborhood

• Kids relate to the troubles of a teen-aged king... 

• Start at this market

• Comme to a "castle"

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Kids relate to the troubles of a teen-aged king...

II.4.3. A MINI-WOOD WHERE CHILDREN PLAY

BEHIND THE GREENERY IS THE WALL OF A CEMETERY WHOSE TOMBS TELL STORIES... 

On the edge of a small forest ideal for kids.

Square Henri-Karcher
165 rue des Pyrenées, 20th, m° Gambetta

Adapted from a Mappy plan

"Do not take tritons, tadpoles or frogs. They are protected species."

This park is opposite of the "jardin [garden] à la française..."

Pamela Spurdon

Park of a 17th-century château (in Sceaux, southeast of Paris)

Because it makes nature the star. 
(Since 2007) 

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II.4.4.

New horizons

II.4.4. NEW HORIZONS

VISITS THAT LET THE YOUNG SEE BEYOND THE FAMILIAR

The royal heritage, the Jewish neighborhood and immigrant vitality 

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The royal heritage at the Saint-Denis Basilica, with its tombs and leading to it, France's first straight street.

• This knight is not dead but awaiting resurrection.  

• To reach the church, walk through the medieval fair ground next to the métro. It is now a vast market and kids love its raucous energy (on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday mornings).

The Schoolbook (in French)

Harald Wolff 

 

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The traditional Jewish neighborhood on a Sunday afternoon 

(At and around des Rosiers, 4e)

• Before the Occupation the district spread as far as Île Saint-Louis, midway across the river. Deportations reduced it to a few streets, where synagogues, restaurants, bookstores and kosher shops multiplied after the war. 

• Today brands have mostly taken over. These photos taken toward 2015 are of sites that have disappeared:

 

• But one comes from all Paris and the suburbs for the tradition that remains... 

(Prices have risen.)

And exhibits at the Mémorial de la Shoah make the visit memorable.

PHOTO  

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Immigrant vigor at La Goutte d'Or  

Anonymous, Echomusée

 

• Children will like the barbershop signs and young tailors, adults the "wax" prints.

  Balandou Coiffure, 42 rue de la Goutte d'Or, near the rue Dejean market

Ibo
27 rue Richomme

End at square Léon... 

After visiting the excellent bakery

at its edge. 

Boulangerie Tembely

33 rue rue Myhra

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II.4.5.

Introduction to the Louvre