Le Marais & Place des Vosges, Paris Walking Tour, France [HD 4K 60fps]

Join us as we walk through le Marais, starting at Place des Vosges. Long the aristocratic district of Paris, it hosts many outstanding buildings of historic and architectural importance. It spreads across parts of the 3rd and 4th arrondissements (on the Rive Droite, or Right Bank, of the Seine).
Long the hub for Paris’s LGBT community and a popular student area, these days the district also teems with well-heeled young professionals and discerning tourists who come in search of a dizzying array of upscale designer boutiques, vintage clothes stores, chic hotels, gourmet food shops, and some of the city’s best restaurants and hippest bars. With its numerous galleries and museums, including the newly reopened Musée Picasso, the Marais is also a huge draw for art-lovers. Its lovely public gardens and polished architecture - a mix of the medieval, elegant 18th century, Haussmannian grandeur, and a touch of cutting-edge modern - only add to its considerable charm.
In 1240, the Order of the Temple built its fortified church just outside the walls of Paris, in the northern part of the Marais. The Temple turned this district into an attractive area, which became known as the Temple Quarter, and many religious institutions were built nearby: the des Blancs-Manteaux, de Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie and des Carmes-Billettes convents, as well as the church of Sainte-Catherine-du-Val-des-Écoliers.
During the mid-13th century, Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples and Sicily, and brother of King Louis IX of France built his residence near the current n°7 rue de Sévigné. In 1361 King Charles V built a mansion known as the Hôtel Saint-Pol in which the Royal Court settled during his reign as well as his son's.
From that time to the 17th century and especially after the Royal Square (Place Royale, current place des Vosges) was designed under King Henri IV in 1605, the Marais was the French nobility's favorite place of residence. French nobles built their urban mansions there-hôtels particuliers, in French-such as the Hôtel de Sens, the Hôtel de Sully, the Hôtel de Beauvais, the Hôtel Carnavalet, the Hôtel de Guénégaud and the Hôtel de Soubise, as well as many other hôtels particuliers, found all over the district.
During the late 18th century, the district was no longer the most fashionable district for the nobility, yet it still kept its reputation of being an aristocratic area. By that time, only minor nobles and a few more powerful nobles, such as the Prince de Soubise, lived there. The Place des Vosges remained a place for nobles to meet. The district fell into despair after the French Revolution, and was therefore abandoned by the nobility completely, and would remain so until the present day. The district has now been rehabilitated and now sports trendy shopping and restaurants in streets such as Rue des Francs-Bourgeois and Rue des Rosiers.
The city’s most famous Jewish neighborhood is in the Marais and is known as the Pletzl - Yiddish for little Place. This 4th arrondissment district (Metro: St. Paul) has been home to Jews on and off since the thirteenth century. Today, though gentrification has made this one of the city’s most fashionable quarters, it is still heavily Jewish and has been for nearly one hundred years. Up and down rue des Rosiers between rue Malher and rue des Hospitalières-St.-Gervais, as well as on the streets off rue des Rosiers, you will find Jewish restaurants, bookshops, boulangeries and charcuteries along with synagogues and shtiebels (small prayer rooms - Oratoire in French).

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Very nice place

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Merçi beaucoup!😄

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Vosges has really beautiful cityscapes😭 Liked from Japan friend🇯🇵🙌

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This was fantastic. I felt like I was there must be the HD and steady camera work. Thank you so much for this. Do you ever think about documenting the streets or corners of the walk. Maybe a 4 second subtitle? And yes, I am envious of your journey.I spent some time living in Germany and visiting the neighboring countries, way before the internet or smart phones early 1980's. So I really appreciate the videos.

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Much appreciate your comment! Many of our videos do have subtitles (please turn on CC / captions), but not all yet. Still working on it…