Château de la Reine Blanche
Blanche, meaning White, was a popular name for aristocratic ladies in the Middle Ages. There were several queens and princesses named Blanche in various centuries. No one is quite sure Read More …
Category: 13th arrondissement
Couvent des Cordelières
This ‘Convent of the Ropes’ was founded towards the end of the 13th century by Marguerite de Provence, the widow of the French King Louis IX, who is now better Read More …
Butte-aux-Cailles
The Butte-aux-Cailles is a small neighborhood on a small hill (the word butte means ‘small hill’) in the 13th arrondissment of Paris, with relatively small houses and lots of friendly Read More …
Diderot University in Paris
Between 2006 and 2012 the University ‘Paris Diderot – Paris 7’ (named after the eighteenth century French philosopher and writer Denis Diderot) gradually moved out of the dreadful Jessieu Campus Read More …
How they make the Gobelin tapestries
In the front building of the Gobelin manufactory in Paris there is a large exhibition hall, on two floors, displaying some of their more recent tapestries and carpets. The first time 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 …