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The present-day Théâtre du Marais. The Théâtre du Marais (French pronunciation: [teɑtʁ dy maʁɛ]) has been the name of several theatres and theatrical troupes in Paris, France. The original and most famous theatre of the name operated in the 17th century. The name was briefly revived for a revolutionary theatre in 1791, and revived again ...
[1] [12] [17] An act of the king's council of 29 December 1629 exclusively installed the Comédiens du Roi at the Bourgogne for three years. Montdory's troupe leased a succession of tennis courts in the Marais until they settled in their final tennis court, the Théâtre du Marais on the rue Vieille-du-Temple, in 1634. [18]
The Tour de Nesle affair was a scandal amongst the French royal family in 1314, during which Margaret, Blanche, and Joan, the daughters-in-law of King Philip IV, were accused of adultery. The accusations were apparently started by Philip's daughter, Isabella. The Tour de Nesle was a tower in Paris where much of the adultery was said to have ...
On the right bank of the Seine river was a similar tall tower: the Tour du Coin (corner tower). [1] The towers protected the upstream approach to the Île de la Cité. In 1308, Philip IV bought the tower from Amaury de Nesle. In 1314, a scandal known as the Tour de Nesle affair implicated the daughters-in-law of Philip IV, who were accused of ...
The rue de la Poissonnerie and the passage du Bœuf, which extends it to the west (no longer in existence), were part of the "tour de ville" laid out internally at the foot of the wall. [11] T 2 ] It would be erroneous to assume that the design of this enclosure guarantees its solidity.
Downstream of the Seine, the wall ended at the Tour du coin near the Louvre (Right Bank), and the Tour de Nesle (formerly Tour Hamelin) on the Left Bank. Upstream, a barrage of heavy chains across the river linked the Tour Barbeau (Right Bank) to the Tour Loriaux (on the island), linked itself to the Tournelle (Left Bank).
The Hôtel in the Marais district remodelled for Claude-Charles-Dominique Tourolle survives (the rue d'Orléans is now the rue Charlot) but the salon's boiseries and chimneypieces were removed in the mid-nineteenth century to a house in the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré now in the possession of the Cercle Interallié. Round-arched mirrors over ...
Tous les matins du monde (English: "All The Mornings of The World") [1] is a 1991 French film based on the book of the same name by Pascal Quignard. [2] Set during the reign of Louis XIV, the film shows the musician Marin Marais looking back on his young life when he was briefly a pupil of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, [2] and features much music of the period, especially that for the viola da ...