Paris Gallery – Sites from the Novel

Street sign for the rue Mondétour.

Street sign for the rue des Prêcheurs, one block south of the barricade.

Intersection of the rue Saint-Denis and the rue Rambuteau.

View down the rue Rambuteau, towards Les Halles. The scaffolding is about where the barricade would have been.

Street signs for the intersection of the rue Mondétour and the rue Rambuteau (which absorbed the rue de la Chanverrerie).

Street sign for the rue du Cygne, one more block north.

Street sign for the rue de la Grande Truanderie, one block north of the barricade.

What horizon might be seen from the site of a barricade. (View up the rue Rambuteau from what would have been the redoubt.)

Our little alley, all grown up! View of the rue Mondétour from the rue Rambuteau. Note Body One Lingerie on the right, which is where Corinthe would have been.

Standing in the rue Mondétour and looking at the rue de la Grande Truanderie. Somewhere a little to the right of this spot is where Eponine died.

The rue du Cygne.

Looking down the rue Saint-Denis from way up at its intersection with the rue du Cygne. Down there where the street starts to curve is the rue Rambuteau.

A better view of the Body One lingerie shop…

…and the double street sign, new and old, on the wall.

Rue de la Grande Truanderie

Another view of the church at the intersection of the rue Saint-Denis and the rue du Cygne.

Rue de la Grande Truanderie

Place Edmond Rostand

Not this Place Saint-Michel! You want the Place Edmond Rostand.

View of the Jardin du Luxembourg from the site of the Musain

More views from the “Musain,” this time on the boulevard side.

The Amis seem cursed to have their gathering places replaced by Body One lingerie shops… this one is halfway between the Quality Burger Restaurant and the Rue Cujas, aka the Rue des Grès where the exit from the back room was.

Aaah, the view from the entrance to the Musain…

There’s the Quality Burger Restaurant off to the right!

Corner of the Rue Oudinot, formerly Rue Plumet

View down the Rue Oudinot

A garden in the former Rue Plumet? Okay, not really.

A glimpse of trees at the end of the Rue Oudinot

Peering through the bars of the gate in the Impasse Oudinot

View back down the Rue Oudinot from the cul-de-sac at the end

Corner of the Rue de Babylone and the Rue Vaneau

Théodule’s barracks? No, now it belongs to the Republican Guard.

Entrance to the Jardin Catherine Labouré in the Rue de Babylone

Jardin Catherine Labouré

Jardin Catherine Labouré

The corner of the Jardin Catherine Labouré that connects with the houses at the end of the Rue Oudinot

The July Column, on the former site of Napoléon’s elephant in the Place de la Bastille

Top of the July Column

Stone historical plaque on a building in the Place de la Bastille with an outline of the fortress

Found in the Place de la Bastille, of all places: poster for a theatrical adaptation of the Waterloo section of Les Mis.

Current 50-52 blvd de l’Hôpital… NOT where the Gorbeau tenement would’ve been!

11 rue de Sévigné, approximate location of Thénardier’s escape from La Force

View up the rue de Sévigné from the église St-Paul-St-Louis

11, rue de Sévigné

View back down the rue de Sévigné towards the boulevard and the church

Fragment of the wall of La Force in the rue Pavée

Historical plaque for a fragment of the wall of La Force

Another of the blocks formerly occupied by the prison of La Force

The Place de la Sorbonne from the Boulevard St-Michel

A boat called Gavroche on the Seine

Rue Thénard (no actual relation: he was a chemistry professor at the Collège de France)

The Hôtel de Ville (Paris City Hall)

City of Paris Historical Library in the rue Pavée, next to a fragment of the wall of La Force

Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Restaurant in the rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau (c’est la faute à…?)

Rue d’Assas, former rue de l’Ouest. Valjean and Cosette had a house in this street, which borders the Jardin du Luxembourg.

Faculté de Droit (Paris law school), where certain revolutionaries tried to spend as little time as possible.