TOURISTY SHOPS AND FAST-FOODS AT THE TRADE ROUTE'S START

 

THE 11TH-CENTURY TOWN HAD NO SPECIAL TRAITS

The beginning of the street has none either.

Then comes an enigma: streets that only a few stops separate. Rue de la Ferronnerie follows the vanished rampart of the early medieval town...

Plan of 1830 with a modern superposition / zoom (please scroll down)

  View of the Cemetery of the Holy Innocents, anonymous, 1814 / zoom

Rue des Innocents crops the edge of the cemetery that was just beyond it to give an extra street to the growing 19th-century town.

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That space is the Cemetery of the Holy Innocents, a center of death, commerce and conviviality: please click on.

It is still a cheerful place,

with meetings and demonstrations.

The American "No Kings" demonstration starts out (in October 2025).

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A cemetery that bewilders