Paris folder A/parisA358
Previous | Home | NextOn the backside of the block (Rue Vieille-Du-Temple) is this public information map. (Up is northwest). The Marais was a bourgeois area encompassing the present 3-4 arrondissements of the Right Bank. "Marais" means "marshland"; it was originally cleared by the Knights Templar in the 12th century. The aristocracy moved into the area in the 16th century.
