THE AREA BETWEEN TOWN AND 11th CENTURY WALL HAD NO SPECIAL TRAITS

 

SO THE START OF TODAY'S STREET HAS NONE EITHER

The panel that introduces it informs on transport and services, but says nothing about the past.

At first you pass only touristy shops and fast foods. 

Then comes an enigma: streets separated by only a few steps. 

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

Rue de la Ferronerie follows the vanished rampart of the early medieval town, so what comes next was right outside it.

 

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

Rue des Innocents cuts off the edge of the void to which we come, to give a little more room to the growing population (of the early 1820's).

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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