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The Palais-Royal is one of my favourite places for poking around. This is the Théâtre du Palais-Royal on Rue de Montpensier, with its elaborate iron staircases running up the outside.

The iron galleries and staircases were added around

A night out in hell. This extraordinary doorway belonged to the Cabaret de l’Enfer at 53 boulevard de Clichy, photographed by Eugène Atget in September 1900. The building is completely gone now.

“Enter and be damned—the Ev

The Théâtre de la Renaissance on Boulevard Saint-Martin, with its grand columns and pairs of sculpted figures supporting the balconies. It opened in 1873, adding a bit of Opéra Garnier glamour to a neighbourhood already known for

Parisians walk every day by the massive Thermes de Cluny, Roman baths built around 100 AD, a huge landmark at the crossroads of Boulevards Saint-Michel and Saint-Germain, and now part of the Musée de Cluny, though visible from the street.

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I came across this magnificent building while exploring north of the grands boulevards. This is the Hôtel Bony, tucked behind no. 32 rue de Trévise in the 9th arrondissement. Quite a house to find hidden away behind the street.

It was

A vegetable seller at Les Halles, photographed by Eugène Atget in October 1900. This was inside one of Baltard’s market pavilions. Look at the cats among the baskets! I can see that it's garlic in the basket at the front, but what veget

It’s surprising that in today's Paris, no one has heard of the Courtille, once one of the great places to go drinking and dancing just outside Paris.

Its name meant an enclosed garden, recalling the gardens and small plots that once occupied t

Do you recognise these houses? This is a familiar little corner of Rue Galande, seen across more than a century—but without colour, you may not immediately recognise them.

When Eugène Atget photographed these two houses around 1899, a

Afternoon sunshine on the old houses along the east side of Rue Saint-Jacques. Many were rebuilt or remodelled in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with further alterations and additions giving them their uneven roofline.

Despite once being

This is the old Saint-Côme anatomy theatre, at no. 5 rue de l’École-de-Médecine. Above the entrance, two winged figures carry the trumpets of Fame, while the dome rises behind them.

It was built between 1691 and 1694, under

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