https://www.parisfootprints.com/articles daily 1.0 2026-11-08 https://www.parisfootprints.com/articles/when-miles-davis-met-juliette-grco monthly 0.5 2026-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/1794002576735-COB6B38JFU8JO75SJCJR/Miles_Davis%2C_%28Gottlieb_06851%29_%28cropped%29.jpg Blog - When Miles Davis Met Juliette Gréco Miles Davis, New York, around August 1947 William P. Gottlieb / Library of Congress. Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/d5cfc9db-f2be-48f8-8c81-191c70606d15/Juliette_Greco_in_ons_land%2C_Bestanddeelnr_907-6287.jpg Blog - When Miles Davis Met Juliette Gréco Juliette Gréco, 7 March 1956 Harry Pot / Anefo / Nationaal Archief https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/7d02751a-13be-4ea9-9bd3-405e04e01623/Plaque_Le_Tabou%2C_angle_rue_Christine_et_rue_Dauphine%2C_Paris_6e.jpg Blog - When Miles Davis Met Juliette Gréco Photographed in 2019 at the corner of rue Dauphine and rue Christine. Celette; perspective correction by Paris 16 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0. https://www.parisfootprints.com/articles/the-mohicans-of-place-maubert monthly 0.5 2026-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/73ea1c87-05a5-46da-a4ba-b047422f5567/1280px-Place_Maubert_18%2C_G.11413%282%29.jpg Blog - The Mohicans of Place Maubert Place Maubert in 1867 By Delauney, Alfred Alexandre (Gouville-sur-Mer, 13–07–1830 - Nanteuil-sur-Marne, 25–06–1894), graveur - https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/place-maubert-18#infos-principales, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=131698984 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/6ea01907-5cfc-4e57-afa8-86b2acb9d4c2/last+of+mohicans-mohicans+de+paris.png Blog - The Mohicans of Place Maubert The cover from James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans (left, 1937); the title page from Alexandre Dumas, Les Mohicans de Paris (centre, 1907); illustration for Les Mohicans de Paris (right, 1863) Credits: N. C. Wyeth / Charles Scribner's Sons; New York Public Library, via Internet Archive. Public domain. Book printing 1937, illustration 1919. Book scan: https://archive.org/details/lastofmohicansna00coop Cover scan: https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lastofmohicansna00coop$1/full/1200,/0/default.jpg Physical title page: https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lastofmohicansna00coop$7/full/1000,/0/default.jpg Art date and artist, Brandywine Museum: https://collections.brandywine.org/objects/1916/the-last-of-the-mohicans-cover-illustration N. C. Wyeth lived 1882-1945; the cover art was published in 1919 and its copyright has expired in France and the United States. Alexandre Dumas, Les Mohicans de Paris, A. Le Vasseur et Cie, 1907 / University of Ottawa, via Internet Archive. Public domain. Book scan: https://archive.org/details/oeuvrescomplte19duma Title page: https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/oeuvrescomplte19duma$7/full/1000,/0/default.jpg Edition record: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24758398M/Les_Mohicans_de_Paris Héliodore Pisan, Les Mohicans de Paris, 1863 / Société des Amis d'Alexandre Dumas, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. 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Credit: Le Petit Journal, supplement illustre, 20 October 1907 / Wikimedia Commons. Public domain; illustrator unidentified on the file page. Source and rights: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Petit_Journal_-_Apache.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/bd806ed8-2c81-45d1-964c-2f416c4e03c9/02_Pere_Lunette_Atget_1902.jpg Blog - The Mohicans of Place Maubert The Pere Lunette cabaret at 4 Rue des Anglais, photographed by Eugene Atget in 1902. (Still there but now an office. You can still see the “lunette” sign, bright yellow, hanging by the door, and there are (listed) paintings on the walls dating from the time of the cabaret.) Eugene Atget / CC0 Paris Musees, Musee Carnavalet - Histoire de Paris (PH6888). https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/le-cabaret-du-pere-lunette-4-rue-des-anglais-5eme-arrondissement-paris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/864f3100-2968-46bb-975a-c631b1f0dcb3/03_Chez_le_Pere_Lunette_Vidal_1893.jpg Blog - The Mohicans of Place Maubert Inside the Pere Lunette: an illustration by Pierre Vidal from Emile Goudeau's Paris qui consomme (1893). Pierre Vidal, in Emile Goudeau, Paris qui consomme (1893) / British Library, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GOUDEAU%26VIDAL_-_Chez_le_P%C3%A8re_Lunette.jpg https://www.parisfootprints.com/articles/rediscovering-elisabeth-vigee-le-brun-in-the-sentier monthly 0.5 2026-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/177efba8-5498-4283-b830-d70727d593c9/vigee_lebrun-clery.png Blog - Rediscovering Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in the Sentier Plaque outside, and the front door of Vigée Le Brun’s home at 19 rue de Cléry, in the 2nd arrondissement. The historic property covered 19–21 rue de Cléry, extending through to 8 rue du Sentier, formerly called rue du Gros-Chenet. Photo: Paris Footprints https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/5dbf435e-df4f-49f9-8bdc-66fb2b8b4f59/1280px-Self-portrait_in_a_Straw_Hat_by_Elisabeth-Louise_Vige%CC%81e-Lebrun.jpg Blog - Rediscovering Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in the Sentier The self-portrait in the National Gallery, London. By Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/elisabeth-louise-vigee-le-brun-self-portrait-in-a-straw-hat, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23940843 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/588e215d-2130-4d85-aabc-18d9a27efe6e/1280px-E%CC%81lisabeth_Vige%CC%81e_Le_Brun_-_La_duchesse_de_Polignac_coiffe%CC%81e_d%27un_chapeau_de_paille_%281782%29_-_Wadsworth_Atheneum.jpg Blog - Rediscovering Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in the Sentier The portrait of the Duchess of Polignac, a copy of which hangs at the Château de Lavoûte-Polignac. By Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art by Facebook, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=133628280 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/a40c9eca-a206-43d7-a403-c3b2641ee80c/Jean-Baptiste-Pierre_Le_Brun_1796.jpg Blog - Rediscovering Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in the Sentier This is Elisabeth’s husband, a self-portrait, 1796 By Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun - www.metmuseum.org, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61405162 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/922b2eec-16ee-4f28-9ee3-16c50cfac52d/1280px-E%CC%81lisabeth-Louise_Vige%CC%81e-Le_Brun_-_Madame_Mole%CC%81-Reymond_%281786%29.jpg Blog - Rediscovering Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in the Sentier Madame Molé-Reymond, an actress from the Comédie Italienne (1786) By Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - Sammyday (2010-10-23), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12624590 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/fbe715ae-af2e-4dfc-a7ac-860358136b05/MA-Lebrun.jpg Blog - Rediscovering Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in the Sentier This is the shocking portrait that caused such a scandal. By Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - Collection of the prince Ludwig von Hessen und bei Rhein, Wolfsgarten Castle, Germany., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=141783 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/4c6b4b48-f80f-4348-b616-9b5256d9b6e2/1280px-Louise_Elisabeth_Vige%CC%81e-Lebrun_-_Marie-Antoinette_dit_%C2%AB_a%CC%80_la_Rose_%C2%BB_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg Blog - Rediscovering Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in the Sentier This is the more proper portrait that replaced it. By Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - Google Arts & Culture — qwHgKqLoAQb9FQ, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13398897 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/c7319da2-75ad-4fca-8cda-60f69c0c4435/1280px-Madame_Vigee-Lebrun_and_her_daughter%2C_Jeanne_Lucia_%28Julie%29.jpg Blog - Rediscovering Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in the Sentier Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Self-portrait with her daughter Julie (1786). Louvre, Paris, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49025553 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/30524b45-29c6-46b6-beba-f8aacb0c6fe0/1280px-Vige%CC%81e-Lebrun%2C_Elisabeth-Louise_-_Charles-Alexandre_de_Calonne_%281734-1802%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg Blog - Rediscovering Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in the Sentier Rumours circulated that Vigée Le Brun was having an affair with Charles Alexandre de Calonne, Louis XVI’s finance minister (1784) By Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - cQGHDF7RxrnPWQ at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22126808 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/dd3a4403-4373-4273-a272-33e9e9e2d171/Oil_on_canvas_portrait_of_Madame_du_Barry_started_in_1789_by_Vige%CC%81e-Lebrun_%28Private_collection%29.jpg Blog - Rediscovering Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in the Sentier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/ce449c7f-a42a-412d-badc-ea52e861a1f1/1280px-E%CC%81lisabeth-Louise_Vige%CC%81e-Le_Brun_-_Portrait_d%27Hubert_Robert_%281788%29.jpg Blog - Rediscovering Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in the Sentier Hubert Robert, 1788. She described this painting in her memoirs as “one of my best portraits.” By Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - GalleriX, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=180805286 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/bdd637d1-b7ec-4185-b07d-fc122aed7495/1280px-E%CC%81lisabeth_Vige%CC%81e-Lebrun_-_Portrait_of_Lady_Hamilton_FXD_%281761%E2%80%931815%29.jpg Blog - Rediscovering Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in the Sentier Lady Hamilton in Naples (1790) By Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - This file was derived from: Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun - Portrait of Lady Hamilton (1761–1815).jpg:, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=109113245 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/8c9a6a8d-fa9c-4e06-9fdc-f8bd39877dbf/Vigee_Le_Brun_Varvara_Ladomirskaya_1800.jpg Blog - Rediscovering Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in the Sentier Varvara Ivanovna Ladomirskaya, painted in Moscow (1800) By Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Varvara Ivanovna Ladomirskaya, 1800. Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/a57b7dc5-e027-4484-a111-b28726c85807/1280px-Vige%CC%81e_Lebrun_Portrait_of_Young_Woman.jpg Blog - Rediscovering Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in the Sentier Portrait of Young Woman (1797) By Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - 1. Web Gallery of Art: Image Info about artwork2. Self-scanned3. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=466622 https://www.parisfootprints.com/articles/miles-juliette-and-my-local-bar monthly 0.5 2026-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/1793654964915-P7BIS8MLHZM63RIR689A/tabou.JPG Blog - Miles, Juliette and My Local Bar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/1793654966114-I7T8U5O8KCG4AEJO29TC/onze.JPG Blog - Miles, Juliette and My Local Bar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/1793654964916-R4GTHYLDG4MUIY11PZRV/IMG_8751+2.JPG Blog - Miles, Juliette and My Local Bar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/30294aab-7604-4c4d-8926-11997ac1e7e1/Plaque_comme%CC%81morative_du_Tabou.jpg Blog - Miles, Juliette and My Local Bar This is the plaque commemorating the Tabou. On the corner of Rue Dauphine and Rue Christine in the 6th, the site now houses the Café Laurent, on the premises of the 5-star Hôtel D'Aubusson. Photo: GANAS, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. https://www.parisfootprints.com/articles/the-edges-of-paris-a-history-of-the-citys-walls monthly 0.5 2026-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/7a1667eb-11c5-4874-a8a3-8e01fd7f70c8/Plan_des_anciennes_enceintes_de_Paris_%281180-1845%29_-_Paris_Muse%CC%81es.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls Map, dated 1937, showing the Philippe Auguste, Charles V, Louis XIII (“Yellow Ditches”), Farmers-General and Thiers walls (”les fortifs”) By Clément-Serveau (Henri Clément Serveau, dit) (Paris, 29–06–1886 - Paris, 08–07–1972), engraver - This image is available from the Collections of the Paris Musées under the the digital ID:, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=110038716 (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/02a38717-5657-4502-a309-987a051f4298/image_anonyme_decouverte_du_m_ph34612_986843.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls Paris Musées / Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris, Découverte du mur d’enceinte gallo-romain, île de la Cité, anonymous photographer, 19th–20th century, CC0. 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Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/a6a3ed29-0ddc-4378-a978-fb72daec883e/Les_Tre%CC%80s_Riches_Heures_du_duc_de_Berry_octobre.jpg Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls The Louvre (pictured later, so it may not have looked exactly like this when Philippe Auguste constructed it) Limbourg brothers, October, from Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, c. 1412–1416, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/e9e60107-411e-4425-b773-72e5547b41d0/bordelle.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls The Porte Saint-Marcel in 1550 (also called the Porte Bordelle, as we see here on this map); we can clearly see the Saint-Etienne du Mont church and the Abbey of Saint-Geneviève, part of which is now the Lycée Henri IV, and the “contrescarpe” and cluster of buildings the other side of the gate, including the inn supposedly frequented by Rabelais. This was the Philippe Auguste wall, strengthened further under Charles V . Olivier Truschet and Germain Hoyau, La Ville, Cité et Université de Paris (Plan de Bâle), c. 1550–53; detail from the 1980 Seefeld facsimile, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/2f00aa47-eddf-41db-81a9-32e00ee9ef5a/marais.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls The Philippe Auguste wall on rue Jardins-Saint-Paul, 4ème © Alannah Moore, Paris Footprints 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/ca67a35c-75d7-48a1-83ea-8a8133da89f4/monsieur.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls Olivier Truschet and Germain Hoyau, La Ville, Cité et Université de Paris (Plan de Bâle), c. 1550–53; detail from the 1980 Seefeld facsimile, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/b3f5e8f0-46a4-4c8c-95d8-d1e404ee70a7/monsieur2.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls Detail from the Plan de Turgot, drawn by Louis Bretez and engraved by Claude Lucas, 1739. Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France. BnF- Bibliothèque nationale de France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/2f1b1216-b0d3-4bd0-abec-640bfe82ec75/wall+clovis.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls The Philippe Auguste wall on rue Clovis, 5ème © Alannah Moore, Paris Footprints 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/641054c5-d56c-4bb0-bed0-581aebe52152/Anjou_paris+%281%29.jpg Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls Master of Anthony of Burgundy, Arrival of Louis II of Anjou and Marie of Blois in Paris, c. 1475, from Froissart’s Chroniques, BnF, Français 2645, fol. 317 verso. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/5d7b0c23-247c-4e2d-b874-a4369e658ecc/Bastille.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls The Bastille and the Porte Saint-Antoine in the Charles V wall Olivier Truschet and Germain Hoyau, La Ville, Cité et Université de Paris (Plan de Bâle), c. 1550–53; detail from the 1980 Seefeld facsimile, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/f48e3a76-604f-49f7-9d04-d1e23769b028/amelot.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls Rue Amelot, running parallel to Boulevard Beaumarchais, along the ditch and the rampart from Place de la Bastille https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/d2b667be-a8a1-451c-be6d-34feded6c04b/aboukir.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls Rues du Mail and Cléry (you can’t see the label for Rue du Mail but it is the part nearest to Place des Victoires), running parallel to Rue d’Aboukir, along the path next to the ditch, and the filled-in ditch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/85fa4e81-1173-4f66-9d80-078294a0aef6/fosses+montmartre.jpg Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls Rue d’Aboukir at the corner with Place des Victoires, showing the old street name for this section: Rue des Fossés Montmartre (ditch next to the Montmartre Gate). © Alannah Moore, Paris Footprints 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/26c89266-5e31-41db-ba06-c4bee65e18bb/clery-lune-beauregard2.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls The junctions of Rue Cléry and Rue Beauregard (left), and Rue Cléry and Rue de la Lune (centre); a narrow block of apartments between Rue de la Lune and Rue Cléry where they meet the Boulevard de Bonne Nouvelle (right). Although the wall is long gone, the buildings do seem to peer down over the Boulevard below. You can clearly see the rise of the Butte-aux-Gravois; you also get the strong impression that the buildings are crammed into the space available to them behind the limits of the wall. © Alannah Moore, Paris Footprints 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/cfd29fa1-d227-4197-ba32-54f1fdc01653/lune.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/97405bce-a62a-4a85-bb30-e8844e1961b5/boulevard+de+bonne+nouvelle.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls Detail from the Plan de Turgot, drawn by Louis Bretez and engraved by Claude Lucas, 1739. Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France. BnF- Bibliothèque nationale de France (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/e92dfc6a-ced8-4cc0-98bb-58a4eea09e49/image_perelle_adam_lan_1635_la_n_g.13350_484355.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls Adam Pérelle, L’an 1635, la nouvelle Porte St. Honoré, c. 1660. CC0 Paris Musées / Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris. (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/eeb1b770-c0c3-48f7-8053-72c466aee5b3/grands-boulevards.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls The arc of the Grands Boulevards created in place of the demolished walls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/92b07b38-47ad-4f9d-8df9-d518307930e3/boulevards.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls Three nineteenth-century paintings of the Grands Boulevards; click to see larger Camille Pissarro, The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, 1897. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 60.174. Public domain. Claude Monet, Boulevard des Capucines, 1873–74. Oil on canvas. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, F72-35. Public domain. Jean Béraud, Le boulevard des Capucines, le soir, devant le Café Napolitain, c. 1880. Oil on canvas. Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris, Paris Musées, P1659. CC0. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/cad5d6ef-5a4c-42f7-887b-a60c164d5e2c/porte+saint+denis.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls From Dictionary of French Architecture from 11th to 16th Century (1856) by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879). Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=896855 (left) Par École d’École française de peinture — Paris Musées, Domaine public, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=98002969 (centre) Par Jean Béraud — https://www.paintingmania.com/le-boulevard-st-denis-paris-220_33407.html, Domaine public, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1350726 (right) (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/29ef8e06-6080-450e-891b-d163953b9190/porte+saint+martin.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls By Pernot, François Alexandre (Wassy, 15–02–1793 - Wassy, 03–11–1865), dessinateur - https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/ancienne-porte-saint-martin, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=136063512 (left) By Christophe Civeton - This file comes from Gallica Digital Library and is available under the digital ID btv1b10302432t, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7693949 Bal du 14 juillet porte Saint-Martin à Paris. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6930829x.r.langFR By Agence Rol - Photo ancienne, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37828258 (right) (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/654c14c6-71ca-468b-b216-652f84189be3/courtille.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls Anonymous, Les amusements de la Courtille, undated, coloured etching. Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris, Paris Musées, G.24488. CC0. Charles Nanteuil, La descente de la Courtille, 1842. Oil on canvas. Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris, Paris Musées, P1567. CC0. (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/5145b6a9-dda9-4116-a451-2b5e6704c84b/image_anonyme_le_moulin_de_la_ph4130_407542.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls Anonymous photographer, Le Moulin de la Galette, moulin Radet au premier plan et moulin Blute-Fin à l’arrière-plan, Montmartre, 1845–55. Salted-paper print. Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris, Paris Musées, PH4130. CC0. (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/5fd0f1df-6535-4b75-8fc8-3537a303c6a9/960px-Bal_du_moulin_de_la_Galette_%28Pierre-Auguste_Renoir%29-WUS-07495.jpg Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls The tax wall was gone by the time Renoir painted this, but it was the reason Montmartre had become a destination for leisure. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Bal du moulin de la Galette, 1876. Oil on canvas. Musée d’Orsay, Paris, RF 2739. Photograph by Rainer Halama, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0. (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/24001698-09ad-4eab-acd9-8eb73acc9765/metro.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls Métro lines 2 and 6 roughly follow the line of the tax wall. By Rigil - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8373237 (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/68f3692b-2b2a-4c33-9dfd-0e6312429c15/octroi.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls Two existing tollhouses by Ledoux, on the left the Rotonde de la Villette, and on the right, the Barrière d'Enfer, at Place Denfert-Rochereau By Coyau / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18490602 (left) By Polymagou - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=133647630 (right) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/ad0113c1-f31d-4858-822b-232c5fd23c6e/Vieux_Paris_au_Muse%CC%81e_Carnavalet%2C_nouvelle_Barrie%CC%80re_du_Thro%CC%82ne%2C_gravure_de_1787_%28cropped%29.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls This is an engraving from 1787 of the Barrière du Trône at today’s Place de la Nation; the columns are still there, and the pavilions are used as social housing. By Pierre Nicolas Ransonnette - Agence Rol, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=156481455 (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/5bdcf6a1-8da4-4d0b-bcae-8a6393c607ff/fortifs2.png Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls Eugène Atget, Poterne des Peupliers, les fortifications, boulevard Kellermann, 1910. Photograph. Musée Carnavalet, Paris Musées, PH8369. CC0. (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/496c172a-65a3-4a25-ac8e-8be325919b01/image_atget_eugene_jean_eugene_auguste_atget_dit_poterne_des_peu_ph8363_353583.jpg Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls The Zone: shacks of rag pickers outside the fortifications. Eugène Atget, Poterne des Peupliers, zone des fortifications, chiffonniers, 1913. Photograph. Musée Carnavalet, Paris Musées, PH8363. CC0. (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/791b64d9-8049-4f64-9533-547be3d0ad8d/image_hintz_barriere_pigall_g.38246_1220297.jpg Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls Hintz, Barrière Pigalle, démolition des murs de l’ancien octroi de Paris, c. 1860. Wood engraving. Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris, Paris Musées, G.38246. CC0. (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/a0f8a3eb-da98-4fca-9f08-27d6f626d9d2/image_draner_siege_de_paris__956347.jpg Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls The fortifs in use in December 1870 Anonymous photographer, Siège de Paris, travaux de défense (8e secteur), vue prise de la caserne près la Porte d’Orléans (Bastion 79), 3 December 1870. Albumen print. Musée Carnavalet, Paris Musées, PH38049. CC0. (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/52788795-0df9-4504-be7a-b31f80c311e6/image_anonyme_souvenirs_de_la__894835.jpg Blog - The Edges of Paris: A History of the City’s Walls An 1871 wood engraving of the insurgents defending Porte Maillot Anonymous, Souvenirs de la Commune – Défense de la porte Maillot par les insurgés, 1871. Wood engraving, published in L’Univers illustré. Musée Carnavalet, Paris Musées. CC0. (Click to enlarge) https://www.parisfootprints.com/articles/zamor-from-court-plaything-to-revolutionary monthly 0.5 2026-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/e420d644-c890-4e20-bfb0-dc63cfe396af/IMG_8174.JPG Blog - Zamor: From Court “Plaything” to Revolutionary Zamor lived on the second floor of this building (the one in the centre of the photo), number 13, Rue Maître Albert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/80a62c94-d0ee-4a50-9a72-5b374943ae0c/E%CC%81lisabeth_Vige%CC%81e-Lebrun_-_Portrait_of_Madame_Du_Barry.jpg Blog - Zamor: From Court “Plaything” to Revolutionary Portrait of Madame du Barry By Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/76611 not provided by the last uploader: Enciclopedia1993 (talk), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=652886 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/f70a766c-46a4-4db6-bffc-5cc11659483e/jeanne_becu_comtesse_du_barry_being_offered_a_cup_of_coffee_by_zamor_1942.9.2273.jpg Blog - Zamor: From Court “Plaything” to Revolutionary Jeanne Bécu, the Countess du Barry, being brought coffee by Zamor. Credit: Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier-Dagoty, after François-Hubert Drouais, 1771. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Widener Collection. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/1793455449328-SNTAMI62MIBI0DYN87FO/Anonymous_-_Portrait_pre%CC%81sume%CC%81_de_Zamor_%28vers_1762-1820%29%2C_page_de_Mme_du_Barry_-_P329_-_muse%CC%81e_Carnavalet_-_3.jpg Blog - Zamor: From Court “Plaything” to Revolutionary This is the more commonly-reproduced portrait of Zamor, however we can’t be sure that it actually is him. Presumed portrait of Zamor, anonymous artist, around 1770. Paris Musées / Musée Carnavalet, CC0. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/c5a486f2-b7a2-467a-be80-17c334d910cc/1280px-Portrait_of_Zamor_by_Marie-Victoire_Lemoine.jpg Blog - Zamor: From Court “Plaything” to Revolutionary This is also, allegedly, a portrait of Zamor. To me this doesn’t look like a boy from Bengal. By Marie-Victoire Lemoine - https://blackpast.org/global-african-history/louis-benoit-zamor-1762-1820/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=177495481 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/8987b4ff-6f24-4619-ac3b-1054b94ee00d/Zamor+by+Drouais.png Blog - Zamor: From Court “Plaything” to Revolutionary This might be the only real likeness of Zamor. This is the Drouais portrait, destroyed by fire and only known through photographs. François-Hubert Drouais, presumed portrait of Zamor. Screenshot from Le « négrillon » de Versailles, in the series Quelle histoire ! Enquête sur la toile, directed by Elisa Helain, CAPA Presse / ARTE, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/390fad26-4d72-4599-82fe-3dd5658bee5f/J.M._Moreau_-_Souper_donne%CC%81_a%CC%80_Louveciennes.jpg Blog - Zamor: From Court “Plaything” to Revolutionary Madame du Barry entertains Louis XV at the inauguration of her pavilion at Louveciennes, 2 September 1771. Designed by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, the building is now known as the music pavilion. By Jean-Michel Moreau - Unknown source, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=763166 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/43f3fcd4-2d99-4783-927a-388618163212/Pavillon_Louveciennes_-_1_-_Elevation_co%CC%82te%CC%81_jardin.jpg Blog - Zamor: From Court “Plaything” to Revolutionary The garden façade of Madame du Barry’s music pavilion at Louveciennes, designed by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and inaugurated in 1771. Architectural drawing by Ledoux. Image: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=762635 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/32029aa9-1c9f-4d91-ab5e-f4d10d2e934c/image_badoureau_le_cafe_procope_g.33128_1219889.jpg Blog - Zamor: From Court “Plaything” to Revolutionary Badoureau, after Kretz, Le café Procope au XVIIIème siècle. Paris Musées / Musée Carnavalet, CC0. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/60a4036e-de9d-4cbf-90b0-1a19d6ae3865/image_atget_eugene_jean_eugene_auguste_atget_dit_rue_maitre-albe_ph31455_1760010.jpg Blog - Zamor: From Court “Plaything” to Revolutionary Rue Maître-Albert photographed in the late 1880s. If I have identified it correctly, Zamor’s building was the one on the right. (Obviously this was long after his death.) Eugène Atget, Rue Maître-Albert. Paris Musées / Musée Carnavalet, CC0 https://www.parisfootprints.com/articles/a-shoe-shine-and-a-place-in-history monthly 0.5 2026-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/95753319-f60e-476f-987f-80e7f46c7ebe/Boulevard_du_Temple_by_Daguerre_%28unmirrored%29.jpg Blog - A Shoe Shine and a Place in History Louis Daguerre, Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 1838. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Image reversed to correct the daguerreotype’s mirror view. https://www.parisfootprints.com/articles/landscapes-with-a-history-at-the-muse-marmottan-monet monthly 0.5 2026-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/7afbaf5a-7eff-48cc-9253-01e2cc3e90ad/IMG_8431.JPG Blog - The Lives Behind the Landscapes at the Musée Marmottan Monet Auguste Chabaud, Paysage de Provence, around 1930. Musée d’Art moderne de Paris. Photograph: Paris Footprints https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/add2d2ef-8213-411d-8a55-45ec389ebd5b/IMG_8424.JPG Blog - The Lives Behind the Landscapes at the Musée Marmottan Monet Piet Mondrian, Arbre, 1908. Kunstmuseum Den Haag Photograph: Paris Footprints https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/6116b24b-0df5-4287-8df1-648963c8778e/IMG_8425+2.png Blog - The Lives Behind the Landscapes at the Musée Marmottan Monet Piet Mondrian, Composition Arbres I, 1912. Kunstmuseum Den Haag Photograph: Paris Footprints https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/b7311250-13f6-4986-8f97-3a7d2ead9817/IMG_8429.JPG Blog - The Lives Behind the Landscapes at the Musée Marmottan Monet Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Hwandoni Hills, 1910. Gallen-Kallela Museum, Espoo Photograph: Paris Footprints https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/878e5133-01c1-4988-b8f8-67b755ababf2/IMG_8430.JPG Blog - The Lives Behind the Landscapes at the Musée Marmottan Monet Attributed to Paul Gauguin, Paysage, 1901. Musée de l’Orangerie Photograph: Paris Footprints https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/7c820cfd-70dd-4d73-baa0-0bf6b235990b/IMG_8432.JPG Blog - The Lives Behind the Landscapes at the Musée Marmottan Monet Gilles Aillaud, Marée basse, rochers, 1983, watercolour on paper Photograph: Paris Footprints https://www.parisfootprints.com/articles/azabu monthly 0.5 2026-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/1731748900300-1KWLVITOFB6LDY16Z4UL/three+starters.jpg Blog - Where Wagyu Sizzles and Sashimi Shines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/0a7695ae-bcf3-4fad-94b0-ada41b21ae59/Chawan-mushi.jpg Blog - Where Wagyu Sizzles and Sashimi Shines - Chawan-mushi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/4346f34f-2001-4c2b-a0a0-2b6d01cae9d6/duck.jpg Blog - Where Wagyu Sizzles and Sashimi Shines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/1731749201964-S34GTJQG0K75PGR85CIH/Dessert.jpg Blog - Where Wagyu Sizzles and Sashimi Shines https://www.parisfootprints.com/articles/caillebotte-musee-marmottan-monet monthly 0.5 2026-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/04c73095-8f8c-46ba-ac66-e9683dfeec49/Exterieur_02.png Blog - Pondering on the New Paris at the Musée Marmottan Monet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/6498e0a1-98b2-48dd-8888-3741b9eb767d/Empire-style+interior+at+the+Mus%C3%A9e+Marmottan+Monet Blog - Pondering on the New Paris at the Musée Marmottan Monet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/673774956c524e69774cc09e/1793324993665-N2RADXN54R6DILEV7EJJ/caillebotte.jpg Blog - Pondering on the New Paris at the Musée Marmottan Monet Gustave Caillebotte, Rue de Paris. Temps de pluie (1877; preparatory study), Musée Marmottan Monet. 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