The day Louis d'Orléans was assassinated in Le Marais, told by Pierre, a Marais resident since 1980.

Text: Katia Barillot
Photos: ©Anaïs Costet

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The Enfants Rouges market, everyone loves it

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Restaurants, merchants, a photo store, a bookstore... This is how the Red Children's Market presents itself, unique in its kind in the Marais and its capital because it is the only one to offer such a varied and varied range of restaurants. qualitative.

The Marais Jewish quarter in Paris

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From the 13th century, the Marais was home to a Jewish community which remained there until its expulsion in the 14th century. Fleeing poverty and persecution, Jews from Eastern countries and those from Alsace settled there in the 19th century. Around rue des rosiers and Place Saint-Paul renamed Pletz…