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Le Marais Apt - 20 rue Chapon
Paris, France
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Le Marais Apt - 20 rue Chapon
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Hotel Location:
20 rue Chapon
Paris,
France
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Le Marais
The district to the north of Ile de la Cite and Ile St-Louis has bravely withstood the onslaught of modern construction. It provides a remarkably authentic record of the development of the city, from the reign of Henri IV at the end of the 16th century to the advent of the Revolution. Built on reclaimed marshland, as its name suggests, the Marais contains some of Europe’s most elegant Renaissance mansions, many of which now serve as museums and libraries. The Marais has become fashionable again and trendy boutiques seem to spring up daily.
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The 3rd and 4th arrondissements comprise the area known as Le Marais. Drained by monks in the 13th century, Le Marais ('swamp') was reclaimed to provide building space on the Right Bank. With Henry IV's construction of Place des Vosges at the beginning of the 17th century, the area became the city's center of fashionable living. Leading architects and sculptors of the period designed elegant mansions and hôtel particuliers with large courtyards and rear gardens.
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Under Louis XV, the center of Parisian life moved to the Faubourg St-Honoré and St-Germain, and construction in Le Marais ceased. In the 1960s, Le Marais was declared an historic neighborhood and a thirty-year period of gentrification drew trendy boutiques, cafés and museums to the district. The area's narrow streets, nevertheless, retain the stamp of a medieval village.
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Take the metro to Rambuteau and start at the corner of the rue des Archives and rue des Francs-Bourgeois named after the poor (not bourgeois at all) allowed to live here tax-free in the 14th century. The national archives are stored in an 18th century mansion, the Hotel de Soubise. Across a vast, horseshoe-shaped courtyard, you come across the exquisite Rococo style of Louis XV’s time, in the apartments of the Prince and Princess of Soubise.
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Up on the first floor is the Musee de l’histoire de France, with gems such as the only known portrait of Joan of Arc painted in her lifetime and the diary kept by Louis XVI. Also on the rue des Francs-Bourgeois, the Hotel Carnavalet was the home of the lady of letters, Madame de Sevigne. Now it houses the Musee Carnavalet.
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