by Le Marais Mood | June 30, 2020 | Culture, Cultural heritage
Following on from rue des Quatre Fils, after the intersection with rue Vielle du Temple, rue de la Perle emerges. After having a coffee at the local bistro, served by Eric, Didier, Magid or Maximus, let's head down this rue de la Perle whose name...
by Le Marais Mood | June 1, 2020 | Culture, Cultural heritage
Let us transport ourselves to the end of the nineteenth century. The driver of the cab that transported us dropped us off at the address we had given him. We pay him, he checks and declares: “That’s rue Michel”. This typical slang expression of his profession...
by Le Marais Mood | November 12, 2019 | Culture, Cultural heritage
Place de la Bastille, Theodor Josef Hubert Hoffbauer, 1841 The storming of the Bastille is one of the major events in our history. This is the starting point of a total and new “Revolution” which, let us remember, gives birth to our very first “...
by Le Marais Mood | September 16, 2019 | Culture, Cultural heritage
Extract from the Quesnel plan – 1609 Everyone knows the Place des Vosges, its galleries, its square. But who knows – still in the Marais – the Place de France? Also wanted by Henry IV, remaining unfinished after the latter's death, it nevertheless...
by Le Marais Mood | June 17, 2019 | The people of the Marais
Marie-Caroline Burnat is a passionate marsh resident. Former director of Point Virgule (from 1993 to 2007) and talent scout (Florence Foresti, Chantal Ladesou, Jean-Marie Bigard, Pierre Palmade, Élie Kakou etc.), she has been traveling through the Marais for four decades...