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The Roman theatre of Lutetia was located where the Lycée Saint-Louis is today, along Boulevard Saint-Michel. It occupied one of the central blocks of the Roman city, three hundred Roman feet on each side.
As with today's Rue Galande, Rue Lagrange, Rue de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève and Rue Descartes, it was a Roman road running from the Roman Rive Gauche city south to Italy. From the Middle Ages , a church along this section of roadway became centre of a Bourg Saint-Médard (Saint-Médard village), and from 1724 was integrated into Paris as ...
The construction of the Roman town Lutetia dates back to the 1st century BC, which was built after the conquest of the Gaulish site, situated on the île de la Cité by the Romans. Saint-Hilaire is a ruined 12th-century church in Paris, active until the French Revolution.
It stands on the location of a 12th-century "house of columns" belonging to the city's "Prévôt des Marchands" (a city governor of commerce), then a later version built in 1628 whose shell is the same today. [citation needed] Just across the street to the north of rue de Rivoli is the 1870s-built BHV (Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville) department store.
Located between the Palais-Royal, the Paris Bourse (stock exchange) and the Grands Boulevards, the passage enjoyed considerable success until the end of the Second Empire. But the gallery lost some of its appeal with the move of the prestigious shops to the Madeleine and the Champs-Élysées , and particularly because of the renovation of Paris ...
Pages in category "Roman Paris" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Rue des Rosiers (French pronunciation: [ʁy de ʁozje]), which means "street of the rosebushes," is a street in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France.It begins at the Rue Malher and proceeds northwest across the Rue Pavée, Rue Ferdinand Duval, Rue des Écouffes, and Rue des Hospitalières Saint-Gervais before it ends at the Rue Vieille du Temple.
One of the most significant recent discoveries took place in Paris in 1996. Redevelopment of the sector where the former workshops of the Sceaux railway were located, between rue d'Alésia and avenue Reille, led to the discovery of an unknown section of the aqueduct, a part of which has been preserved in the Marie-Thérèse-Auffray garden.