2015-08-31-Paris, France-The Marais District
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A Le Marais Cafe. Note the red "Tabac" Sign. Tabacs can be found everywhere in Paris (see below)
A Tabac is a shop licensed to sell tobacco products in France. Tabacs are identified by a distinctive elongated diamond sign. Tabacs also sell newspapers, telephone cards, postage stamp and other items of convenience. They are an institution in Paris.
We rented an apartment in this building for the week
4e Arr means the 4th arrondissement of Paris
The 4th arrondissement contains the Renaissance-era Paris City Hall. It also contains the Renaissance square of Place des Vosges, the overtly modern Pompidou Centre and the lively southern part of the medieval district of Le Marais, which today is known for being the gay district of Paris (while the more quiet northern part of Le Marais is contained inside the 3rd arrondissement). The eastern parts of the Île de la Cité (including Notre-Dame de Paris) as well as the Île Saint-Louis are also included within the 4th arrondissement.
Rue Beautreillis, the quiet street in Le Marais where we stayed
17 Rue Beautreilles-Jim Morrison, lead singer for the Doors, died here.
This building was directly across the Street from where we stayed. Morrison died here of a heart attack, believed to have been precipitated by an accidental drug overdose.
Jim Morrison-Died in an apartment on Rue Beautreillis
The headquarters of the horse mounted Republican Guard
The home of the Republican Guard
The Republican Guard (French: Garde républicaine) is part of the French Gendarmerie. It is responsible for providing guards of honor for the State and security in the Paris area.
Street scene, Le Marais. Note the early 20th century advertising kiosk, common throughout Paris
The Opera Bastille.
The Opéra Bastille (Bastille Opera House) is a modern opera house in Paris, France. Inaugurated in 1989 as part of President François Mitterrand’s “Grands Travaux”, it became the main facility of the Paris National Opera, France's principal opera company, alongside the older Palais Garnier; most opera performances are shown at the Bastille along with some ballet performances and symphony concerts, while "Garnier" presents a mix of opera and ballet performances.
The July column in the Place de la Bastille
The Place de la Bastille is a square in Paris, where the Bastille prison stood until the 'Storming of the Bastille' and its subsequent physical destruction occured between 14 July 1789 and 14 July 1790 during the French Revolution; no vestige of it remains.The July Column (Colonne de Juillet) which commemorates the events of the July Revolution (1830) stands at the center of the square.The square is home to concerts and similar events. The north-eastern area of Bastille is busy at night with its many cafés, bars, night clubs, and concert halls.
Cafe on the Place de la Bastille
Detail: July Column, Place de la Bastille. "To the glory of the Citizens of France"
Cafes are numerous in Paris. So are motorcycles, given the high price of fuel.
Georgia roaming Le Marais
Gypsy seeking alms, common Paris sight
The lively Le Marais district, our neighborhood for the week
Georgia emerges from a bakery and pastry shop with a baguette, her first of many visits
The Temple du Marais or Eglise Protestante Unie du Marais
The Temple du Marais, sometimes known as the Temple Sainte-Marie, or historically, as the Church of Sainte Marie de la Visitation, is a Protestant church located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, in the district of Le Marais at 17 Rue Saint-Antoine. It was originally built as a Catholic convent by the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, whose sisters were commonly called the Visitandines. The church was closed in the French Revolution and later given to a Protestant congregation which continues its ministry to the present.
Ecole (School) Des Francs Bourgeois
The Lycée des Francs-Bourgeois is a private School in the Lasallian tradition (French Christian Brothers) located in Paris in the 4th Arrondissement in the Marais District It was founded November 21, 1843 by the Christian Brothers. It has a grammer school, high school and college. Les Francs-Bourgeois currently educates just over 2,000 students.
Gypsy seeing alms in Le Marais
Place de Vogues
Le Marais' busy principal thoroughfare
A classic Citroen, one of France's two iconic auto marques
Hotel de Sully
The Hôtel de Sully is a hôtel particulier, or private mansion, in the Louis XIII style, located in the Le Marais, IV arrondissement, Paris. It is located at 62 rue Saint-Antoine.
Hotel de Sully-Interior courtyard
The financier Mesme Gallet built the hôtel, with gardens and an orangery, between 1625 and 1630. The building was designed by the architect Jean Androuet du Cerceau. The site was chosen to give access to the Place Royale - today the Place des Vosges - and was located in the Marais, at the time a fashionable district of Paris.
Hotel de Sully
Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully, former Superintendent of Finances to King Henri IV, purchased it on 23 February 1634. He completed the decoration of the hôtel, and spent his last years living there. His grandson Maximilien commissioned the architect François Le Vau, son of Louis Le Vau, to build an additional wing in 1660, to the west of the garden. The Hôtel de Sully still bears the name of this family, who owned the building into the 18th century.
Hotel de Sully
The hôtel then passed through the hands of various owners, becoming an investment property in the 19th century. Various additions and alterations were made, to accommodate trades, craftsmen and other tenants. In 1862 it was classified as a monument historique, and new owners, more concerned with conservation, gradually restored the building. It became a state-owned property in 1944. A long restoration programme was then undertaken, which was completed with the repair of the Orangery in 1973.Since 1967 it has been the home of the Caisse nationale des monuments historiques et des sites, which in 2000 became the Centre des monuments nationaux. This public body, under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, is responsible for the management of historic buildings and monuments in state care.
Gardens-Hotel de Sully
Place de Vogues
The Place des Vosges is the oldest planned square in Paris and one of the finest in the city. It is located in the Marais district, and it straddles the dividing-line between the 3rd and 4th arrondissements of Paris.
Place de Vosges
The Place des Vosges was inaugurated in 1612 originally as the Place Royale with a grand carrousel to celebrate the wedding of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria. It became the prototype of all the residential squares of European cities that were to come. What was new about the Place Royale in 1612 was that the house fronts were all built to the same design, probably by Baptiste du Cerceau, of red brick with strips of stone quoins over vaulted arcades that stand on square pillars. The steeply-pitched blue slate roofs are pierced with discreet small-paned dormers above the pedimented dormers that stand upon the cornices. Only the north range was built with the vaulted ceilings that the "galleries" were meant to have.
A Classic Citroen outside the Place de Vogues
Place de Vogues
Two pavilions that rise higher than the unified roofline of the square center the north and south faces and offer access to the square through triple arches. Though they are designated the Pavilion of the King and of the Queen, no royal personage has ever lived in the aristocratic square. The Place des Vosges initiated subsequent developments of Paris that created a suitable urban background for the French aristocracy.
Georgia at large on the Place de Vogues
Place de Vogues-Vaulted arcade
Place de Vogues-King Louis XIII
Cardinal Richelieu had an equestrian bronze of Louis XIII erected in the center (there were no garden plots until 1680). The original was melted down in the Revolution; the present version, begun in 1818 by Louis Dupaty and completed by Jean-Pierre Cortot, replaced it in 1825.
Place de Vogues
Art Shop, Le Marais
An old Boulangerie converted to a fashion shop, Le Marais
Ornate gateway, Le Marais
Georgia consults Rick Steves' guidebook in La Marais
The Kennedys fascinate the French. Jackie, an enthusiastic Francophile, spoke fluent French.
Rue des Rosiers. La Marais
Marais is the old Jewish District and parts are still home to Jewish people
An interesting blue bakery, Le Marais
Yummy fallafel in Marais-"Toujours imite, jamais egale" Always imitated, never equalled"
The old Jewish Quarter. Le Marais
This was once the largest Jewish community in Europe but 75% of the population were deported and died tragically in concentration camps during WWII. Today the street is packed with delis, bakeries, old hamams, and East European Jewish restaurants.
Hebrew Library, Marais
At the end of the 19th century and during the first half of the 20th, the district around the rue des Rosiers, referred to as the "Pletzl", welcomed many Eastern European Jews (Ashkenazi) who reinforced the district's clothing specialization.
Street scene, Le Marais
Le Marais very similar in feel to the West Village in Manhattan, with a different architecture of course, but the small crooked medieval lanes are alive with bars, restaurants, hotels, high and low fashion boutiques, trendy shops, hip designers, old fashioned bread shops, jewelry, wine shops, fashionable art galleries and museums all crammed into one small area.
Archetectural detail, Le Marais
2015-08-31-Paris, FR-Seine River Cruise
2015-08-31-Paris, FR-Seine River Cruise
2015-06-14 to 17-Durham, Sisters and Mt. Hood, OR-Post Sarah's and Tom's Wedding
2015-06-14 to 17-Durham, Sisters and Mt. Hood, OR-Post Sarah's and Tom's Wedding
2021-03-27-Cohasset, Massachusetts-Windy Hill Ledge slated for destruction
2015-12-16-Christmas Carroll
2016-05-05-Plymouth, MA-Plimouth Plantation
2016-02-26 to 3/1-Nuevo Vallarta, MX-With Jack, the Arnetts & Masottas
2016-02-19-Jamestown, RI-Meeting Palmer William Parsons
2016-02-14-Cohasset & Hull, MA-Superfreeze
2016-01-05-NVNA & Hospice Holiday Vol Party
2015-12-05-Cohasset, MA-Reflections on Straits Pond
2015-11-21-Cohasset and Boston, MA-ND-BC Weekend
2015-11-17-Norwell, MA-Hospice Thanksgiving Potluck Dinner
2015-10-17-Evanston, IL & South Bend, IN-ND-USC Weekend
2015-09-08-La Rochelle, FR (Day 1)
2015-09-08-Richelieu, FR
2015-09-07-Amboise, FR- Château d'Amboise & Château du Clos Lucé
2015-09-07-Chenonceaux, FR-Château de Chenonceau
2015-09-06-Chartres, FR-Chartres Cathedral
2015-09-04-Paris, FR-The Gargoyles and Chimeras of Notre Dame
2015-09-04-Paris, FR-La Madeleine, Place Vendôme & Eiffel Tower at night
2015-09-04-Paris, FR-St Eustace, Montmarte, Sacré-Cœur Basilica
2015-09-04-Paris, FR-The Louvre and Palais Royal
2015-09-04-Paris, FR-Place de la Concorde, L'Orangerie & Tuileries Garden
2015-09-03-Versailles, FR-The Palace of Versailles
2015-09-02-Paris, FR-Isle St Louis, Left Bank & Musée d'Orsay
2015-09-02-Paris, FR-Cathedral of Notre Dame & Sainte-Chapelle
2015-09-01-Paris, FR-Napoleon's Tomb & Paris at Night
2015-09-01-Paris, FR-L'Arc de Triomphe & Champs-Élysées
2015-08-31-Paris, FR-Seine River Cruise
2015-08-31-Paris, France-The Marais District
2015-06-14 to 17-Durham, Sisters and Mt. Hood, OR-Post Sarah's and Tom's Wedding
2015-06-13-Portland, OR-Sarah's and Tom's Wedding Day
2015-06-12 & 13-Durham, Tualitin & Portland-OR-Events Pre-Sarah's & Tom's Wedding
2015-06-11-Bandon to Lake Oswego, OR
2015-06-11-Bandon, OR-Golf at the Bandon Preserve
2015-06-10-Bandon, OR-Golf at Old McDonald GC
2015-06-09-Bandon, OR-Golf at Bandon Crossing & The South Oregon Coast
2015-06-08-Bandon, OR-Golf at Bandon Dunes GC & Pacific Dunes GC
2015-06-07-Bandon, OR-Golf at Bandon Trails & The Punchbowl
2015-06-06-Jacksonville & Bandon, OR
2015-06-05-The Upper Rogue Segment of Rogue-Umpqua Scenic Drive, OR
2015-06-04-The North Umqua Segment of the Rogue-Umpqua Scenic Byway, OR
2015-02-28/03-01 to 08-Nuevo Vallarta, MX-Occidental Allegro
2014-12-02-Cohasset, MA-The filming of "The Finest Hours"
2014-11-13 & 14-Fort Bragg & Fayetteville, NC-Gabe's Barracks & The Airborne & Spec Ops Museum
2014-11-12-Fort Bragg, NC-Gabe & the 82nd Airborne return from Afghanistan
2014-10-10 to 12-Cohasset, MA-David's & Shelia's Visit
2014-10-05-Evanston IL-Jack's Neighborhood and Northwestern University
2014-10-03-Chicago, IL-Vanessa's crib and 'hood
2014-09-23-Tacoma, WA-The LeMay Auto Museum
2012-09-22-Walla Walla, Wa-Whitman College and the drive back to Bellview
2014-09-21-Dayton & Columbia County, WA-Patit Creek Campground, Winery Visits and Whitman Soccer
2014-09-20-Walla Walla, WA-Farmers' Market, Whitman College, Stu's Soccer Game, Dinner at Dunhams
2014-09-18 &19-Belleview and Walla Walla, WA
2014-09-11-Wallingford and Middlefield, CT-Everly!
2014-09-14-Cohasset, MA-Torey's & Dick's Visit
2014-09-06-Notre Dame Michigan Weekend
2014-08-24-Salem, MA-Peabody Essex Museum
2014-06-03-Cohasset, Hull and Scituate, MA-Peter and Olga visit
2014-08-06-Jamestown, RI-Golf with Brad & Jack at Jamestown GC
2014-10-03 & 04-South Bend, IN-Notre Dame-Stanford Weekend
2014-08-04-Camden, ME-Fungi of Coastal Maine
2014-07-13 to 15-Cohasset-Bill & Jill Visit
2014-06-13 to 15-Leesburg, VA Historic District and Surroundings
2014-06-14-Leesburg, VA-Randee's & Mike's Wedding
2014-05-28 to 06-03-Notre Dame, IN- ND Reunion
2014-05-02 to 04-Gainesville, FL-Gator Glory-Shane Graduates from UF
2014-04-19 &20-Jamestown, RI-Easter Weekend at Brad's and Alyssa's
2014-04-07-Bunnell-Pook storms back
2014-04-04 to 06-St Augustine, FL-Golf Trip
2014-02-09-St. Augustine, FL
2014-02-05-Sanibel Island & Captiva Island, FL
2014-02-04-Naples, FL
2014-02-02 & 03-Pine Island & Bonita Springs, FL
2014-02-01-Pine & North Captiva Islands, FL
2014-01-31-Trenton, FL
2014-01-30-Gainesville, FL-Itzack Perlman with John & Kris
2014-01-10-St Kitts-Day 9
2014-01-10-St Kitts-Day 8
2014-01-07 to 09-St Kitts-Days 5-7
2014-01-06-St Kitts-Day 4
2014-01-05-St Kitts-Day 3
2014-01-04-St Kitts-Day 2
2014-01-03-St Kitts-Day 1
2014-01-01-A New Year's Day walk in Cohasset's Woods
2014-01-01-Cohasset, MA-A Girl and her dog
2013-12-25-Cromwell, CT-Christmas Day at Lee's
2013-24-12-Christmas Eve-Essex & Cromwell, CT
2013-12-22-Boston, MA-Christmas in the City
2013-12-19-Boston, MA-Boston Symphony Hall-Holiday with the Pops
2013-12-20-Cohasset, MA-Feeling a lot like Christmas
2013-12-11 &12-New York, NY-Christmas in the City
11-26-13-Cohasset, MA-Thanksgiving Weekend
2013-11-23-Plymouth, MA-Thanksgiving Parade
2013-11-19-Cohasset & Hull, MA-A walk around Straits Pond
2013-11-17-Chestnut Hill, MA-BC vs NC State. Eagles Win
2013-11-10-Pittsburgh, PA (Part 3)
2013-11-09-Pittsburgh, PA (Part 2)
2013-11-08--Pittsburgh, PA (Part 1)
2013-11-11-Cohasset, MA-Veterans Day
2013-11-05-Boston, MA-Red Sox World Series Parade
2013-11-03-Cohasset, MA-Autumn Colors II
2013-11-02-Cohasset, MA-Go Irish, Beat Navy!
2013-10-06-Rousse, Veliko Tarnovo & Arbanasi, Bulgaria
2013-10-05-Bucharest, Romania-Romanian Cultural Village, Orthodox Cathedral & Palace of Parliament
2013-10-04-Bucharest, Romania-Monastery, The Old Town and the Philharmonic
2013-10-03-Transylvania, Romania
2013-10-01 & 02-Bucharest & Transylvania, Romania (Days 1 & 2)
2013-10-31-Cohasset, MA-Autumn in Cohasset
2013-09-28-Notre Dame, IN-Notre Dame-Oklahoma Weekend
2013-09-23-Boston, MA-Andrea's and Will's Wedding
2013-09-20-Braintree, MA-Jeep Shopping for Gabe
2013-09-19-Newburyport, MA-Lighthouse Lunch
2013-09-16-Ponce Inlet, FL
2013-09-14-Gainesville, FL-Kristen's and John's Wedding
2013-08-31-Cassopolis, MI-Diamond Lake
2013-08-30-Notre Dame, IN-ND vs Temple
2013-08-28-Lebanon & Hanover, NH and surrounding areas
2013-08-28-Hanover, NH-Dartmouth
2013-07-25-Gloucester, MA-Waterfront & Hammond Castle
2013-07-19 to 21-Portland and Little Diamond Island, ME-Visiting John & Libby
2013-07-12-Fort Benning, GA.-Gabe is Airborne!
2013-06-29-Hull & Cohasset, MA-Georgia's 60th Birthday Weekend Celebration
2013-06-14-San Antonio, TX-Fort Sam Houston-Gabe graduates as a combat medic
2013-06-08-Rockport, MA-Visiting our good friends, the Spectors
2013-06-04-Cohasset, MA-Windy Hill Gardens
2013-06-02-Hull, MA-Corby gets a bath at Liz Bates' house
2013-05-27-Cohasset, MA-Memorial Day
2013-25-05-West Point, NY-Thomas Cunningham's USMA Graduation and Commisioning Ceremony
2013-05-03-Rockleigh, NJ-Lauren Salonia's and Justin Lapin's Wedding
2013-05-11-Pawtuckett, RI-Patrick and Karen's Wedding
2013-04-26-Cohasset, MA-1 Windy Hill Road-Enhanced by Walpole Woodworkers
2013-04-16 St. Augustine, FL-PookScam 50.5
2013-04-15-New Smyrna Beach, FL-PookScam 50.4
2013-04-14-The Hammock & Matanzas, FL-PookScam 50.3
2013-04-13-Bunnell, FL-PookScam 50.2
2013-04-12-Bunnell, FL-PookScam 50.1
2013-03-12 &13-Nuevo Vallarta, MX
2013-03-13-New York, NY-Sunday Morning with Jack
2013-03-02-New York, NY-Chrisy's BDay Party
2013-03-02-New York, NY-9/11 Memorial
2013-02-10-Cohasset, MA-Nemo
2013-02-13-Cohasset, MA
2013-01-27-Cohasset, MA
2013-01-07-Miami, FL
2013-01-12-New York, NY
2013-01-05-Cohasset, MA-G&A
2012-12-30-Cohasset & Hull, MA
2012-12-24-Cromwell, CT
2012-12-22-Cohasset, MA
2012-11-25-Cohasset, MA
2012-11-10-Chestnut Hill, MA
2012-10-29-Cohasset, MA
2012-02-12-Whitefield, NH-Heidi Friedman's Wedding
2011-08-11 to 15-Aspen & Snowmass, CO at Bill's
After a smooth flight from Boston we arrived in Paris and took a taxi to our tiny,rented apartment in the Le Marais historic neighborhood of Paris. Le Marais ("The Marsh") once the aristocratic district of Paris, hosts many outstanding buildings of historic and architectural importance. It spreads across parts of the 3rd and 4th arrondissements on the right bank of the Seine River. With numerous cafes, bakeries, pastry shops, restaurants and bistros Le Marais is a bit funky and bohemian, and feels like a combination of Manhattan's Upper West side and Greenwich Village. It is also the historical home of Paris's Jewish Community.
A Le Marais Cafe. Note the red "Tabac" Sign. Tabacs can be found everywhere in Paris (see below) We rented an apartment in this building for the week 4e Arr means the 4th arrondissement of Paris Rue Beautreillis, the quiet street in Le Marais where we stayed 17 Rue Beautreilles-Jim Morrison, lead singer for the Doors, died here. Jim Morrison-Died in an apartment on Rue Beautreillis The headquarters of the horse mounted Republican Guard The home of the Republican Guard Street scene, Le Marais. Note the early 20th century advertising kiosk, common throughout Paris The Opera Bastille. The July column in the Place de la Bastille Cafe on the Place de la Bastille Detail: July Column, Place de la Bastille. "To the glory of the Citizens of France" Cafes are numerous in Paris. So are motorcycles, given the high price of fuel. Georgia roaming Le Marais Gypsy seeking alms, common Paris sight The lively Le Marais district, our neighborhood for the week Georgia emerges from a bakery and pastry shop with a baguette, her first of many visits The Temple du Marais or Eglise Protestante Unie du Marais Ecole (School) Des Francs Bourgeois Gypsy seeing alms in Le Marais Place de Vogues Le Marais' busy principal thoroughfare A classic Citroen, one of France's two iconic auto marques Hotel de Sully Hotel de Sully-Interior courtyard Hotel de Sully Hotel de Sully Gardens-Hotel de Sully Place de Vogues Place de Vosges A Classic Citroen outside the Place de Vogues Place de Vogues Georgia at large on the Place de Vogues Place de Vogues-Vaulted arcade Place de Vogues-King Louis XIII Place de Vogues Art Shop, Le Marais An old Boulangerie converted to a fashion shop, Le Marais Ornate gateway, Le Marais Georgia consults Rick Steves' guidebook in La Marais The Kennedys fascinate the French. Jackie, an enthusiastic Francophile, spoke fluent French. Rue des Rosiers. La Marais Marais is the old Jewish District and parts are still home to Jewish people An interesting blue bakery, Le Marais Yummy fallafel in Marais-"Toujours imite, jamais egale" Always imitated, never equalled" The old Jewish Quarter. Le Marais Hebrew Library, Marais Street scene, Le Marais Archetectural detail, Le Marais
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