The French newspaper Le Monde
After forty-four years in the 9th arrondissement on rue des Italiens, seven years in the 15th (rue Falguière) and eight years in the 5th (rue Claude-Bernard), the daily newspaper Le Read More …
Category: 13th arrondissement
Rue Corvisart
The street that is now called rue Corvisart, (after Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, the personal physician of Napoléon I) was formerly called rue Champ-de-l’Alouette (Street of the Field of the Lark). It Read More …
Tales of Broca Street
When I was staying in a studio apartment on Rue Broca, in the Croulebarbe quarter of the 13th arrondissement, I decided to take a walk up the street to see Read More …
François-Mitterrand Library
This is the newest and largest of the five public sites of the French National Library. It was one of the “great projects” — which included the Great Arch, the Read More …
Jana & JS on Joan of Arc Street
In February 2011, the street artists Jana & JS (Jana Balluch and Jean-Sébastien Philippe) were commissioned to make two large wall paintings on these new buildings at 110 rue Jeanne Read More …
Simone de Beauvoir Footbridge
This striking new footbridge, Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir, was built from 2004-2006 to connect the new National Library François Mitterand with the new Parc du Bercy. It is a steel structure Read More …
Austerlitz Bridge in Paris
The Austerlitz Bridge is a stone bridge with five arches. It was originally built from 1801 to 1805, but it was widened and strengthened twice during the nineteenth century. The Read More …
Married in the city hall of the 13th
Nowadays, if you say a couple was ‘married in city hall of the 13th’ it just means they both said oui (yes) here in this building on the Place d’Italie. Read More …
The Bièvre River in Paris
If you go snooping around the western half of the 13th arrondissement (and adjoining sections of the 5th) in Paris you will find numerous references to a river called the Read More …
Center for Fashion and Design at Les Docks
On the left bank of the Seine, between the Austerlitz railway station and the François Mitterrand Library, there is a huge building made of reinforced concrete which was built in Read More …