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Le Bon Marché (lit. "the good market", or "the good deal" in French; [lə bɔ̃ maʁʃe]) is a department store in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France. Founded in 1838 and revamped almost completely by Aristide Boucicaut in 1852, it was one of the first modern department stores.
' Lutetia of the Parisii '), was a Gallo–Roman town and the predecessor of modern-day Paris. [4] Traces of an earlier Neolithic settlement ( c. 4500 BC ) have been found nearby, and a larger settlement was established around the middle of the third century BC by the Parisii , a Gallic tribe.
This area contains clothing stores and hair salons whose owners are largely of African origin. These stations mark the northernmost limits of Paris' "Sentier" textile industry district. Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis, which runs along Gare du Nord, is the domain of Indian shops (clothes, Bollywood videos) and restaurants.
The area in front of the church was packed with narrow houses and streets until Paris was rebuilt in a more expansive style by Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann in the mid-19th century. [ 21 ] Excavations for a car park under the square in 1965 uncovered vestiges of the original Gallo-Roman walls of the city and the Roman baths, dating to the ...
Diagram of a typical Roman domus, with a taberna on each side of the entrance. A taberna (pl.: tabernae) was a type of shop or stall in Ancient Rome.Originally meaning a single-room shop for the sale of goods and services, tabernae were often incorporated into domestic dwellings on the ground level flanking the fauces, the main entrance to a home, but with one side open to the street.
Attached to it is the "Fontaine Greneta", rebuilt at the same time as the house, but whose original dates back to at least 1502. Nos. 224–226: Maison des Dames de Saint-Chaumont (Couvent des Filles de l'Union chrétienne), established in 1685 in a Hôtel de Saint-Chaumond, of which nothing survives except its name in the name of the community.
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The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, in 2005 with display dating from 1992. The Hôtel de Cluny is a rare extant example of the civic architecture of medieval Paris, erected in the late 15th century to replace an earlier structure built by Pierre de Chaslus after the Cluny Abbey acquired the ancient Roman baths in 1340. [2]