The Marais

How to define the Marais on Internet without boring the Internet user while remaining faithful to the complex and historic reality of this area?

The Middle Ages marks its birth both princely and edible.

The Renaissance sees the appearance of the first hotels there.

Regularly built by a noblesse de robe - servants of the State ennobled by their charges -, eager to appear and to transport in town the models of country castles.

The century of Louis XIII dedicates it as the fashionable area, sang by the poets and occupied by the elite of the court.

At its height which reaches its peak and ends at the same time under Louis XIV, follows the twilight; a slow sleepiness, the disfavor of the fashions of this terrible Enlightenment century, throw the Marais in a hundred years sleep, from where it is awaken, in a din of machines and tools, by the increasing number of art men and workers that the industrial revolution brought in the capital.

In 1965, the Marais was becoming the first " safeguarded sector " of the capital and the demolitions officially stopped.