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Tour Jean-sans-Peur. The Tour Jean-sans-Peur or Tour de Jean sans Peur (French pronunciation: [tuʁ də ʒɑ̃ sɑ̃ pœʁ], Tower of John the Fearless), located in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, is the last vestige of the Hôtel de Bourgogne ([otɛl də buʁɡɔɲ]), the residence first of the Counts of Artois and then the Dukes of Burgundy.
The oldest known parish register in Paris belongs to the parish of Saint-Jean-en-Grève . In agenda format and written in Latin , it covers the period from April 1515 to November 1521. [ 1 ] Registers of baptisms were opened as early as 1525 in the parishes of Saint-André-des-Arts [ fr ] and Saint-Jacques-la-Boucherie [ fr ] .
The Couvent Saint-Jacques, [1] Grand couvent des Jacobins or Couvent des Jacobins de la rue Saint-Jacques [2] was a Dominican monastery on rue Saint-Jacques in Paris, France. Its complex was between what are now rue Soufflot and rue Cujas. Its teaching activities were the origin of the collège des Jacobins, a college of the historic University ...
The 2nd arrondissement is the home of Grand Rex, the largest movie theater in Paris. [2] The 2nd arrondissement is also the home of most of Paris's surviving 19th-century glazed commercial arcades. At the beginning of the 19th century, most of the streets of Paris were dark, muddy, and lacked sidewalks.
Saint-Pierre-du-Gros-Caillou is a Roman Catholic parish church located at 52 Rue Dominique in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, completed in 1733. It takes its name from a large boulder, or Caillou, which marked the limit between the parishes of the abbeys of Saint-Saint-Germaine des Pres and Sainte-Geneviece.
The Passage Choiseul is on a site previously occupied by four hôtels particuliers, acquired by the Mallet Bank for a real-estate development that included the Opéra-Comique's nearby Salle Ventadour. [2] The passage was built between 1826 and 1827, first to the designs of the architect François Mazois , then Antoine Tavernier. [2]
The passage was built in 1799 [1] and opened in 1800 on the site of the town residence of the Marechal de Montmorency, Duke of Luxembourg, which had been built in 1704. The doorway of the modern building, which opened on the Rue Saint-Marc, facing the Rue des Panoramas, was the gateway of the original mansion.
It mainly houses offices but also a hotel, [2] a restaurant, a bar with a panoramic terrace overlooking Paris, [3] an auditorium, shops and green terraces. [4] The Tour Duo n°1, with 180 m, [5] is the third tallest building in Paris after the Eiffel Tower (324 m) and the Tour Montparnasse (209 m), at par with the forthcoming Tour Triangle. The ...