Sainte-Chapelle, Conciergerie, Pont-Neuf : l’île qui a fait Paris ⚜️ | Trésors du Patrimoine

Sainte-Chapelle, Conciergerie, Pont-Neuf : l’île qui a fait Paris ⚜️ | Trésors du Patrimoine

For more than two millennia, the Île de
la Cité has extended its aura around Paris. Located in the heart of the capital
and the Île-de-France region, it has become its jewel over the centuries. Despite having an area of ​​barely 23
hectares, it welcomes nearly 13 million tourists a year. Let’s go and discover this
Treasure Island, the Île de la Cité. The island of the Cité is a
very contemporary name for things. It was called Lutetia. And Lutetia became known as Paris. Before it was called Paris, it was called Paris. The history of this island is its
configuration, how it exists. It is exactly
at the mouth of an old river that still exists, which is the Bièvre. The Bièvre River flowed into the sea
at roughly the level of Rue Saint-Jacques, just before the first
crossing towards the island, towards Lutetia. And besides, it was because this Seine
spread out a little into the plains that there was a marsh,
which is still called the marsh today. At one point, the Seine found that
the Bièvre had made a small branch and one of the branches of the Seine passed
where we know it today. And the main arm, which formed a meander over Paris, has disappeared.
It’s dried out. Moreover, today,
when there are floods, you have floods in the cellars
around the Seine, but also in the cellars of the Grands Boulevards. The water is still there. This city, this town, this island, was the easiest way to cross the Seine in the
westernmost territorial part. For a very long time, it was the last
bridge before the mouth of the Seine at Le Havre. This is very important.
This will give the Roman city a crossroads character. The historic city is the Roman city, it’s the Ylatin district. The entire Forum was on the
Sainte-Geneviève mountain, where the Pantheon is located, and the city was being organized. There are still names
in this district that include hotel, the Lutèce arenas, the Odeon, which
recall Roman monuments that were restored in this Roman city. But very quickly, the Romans occupied the island of the Cité, or rather, Lutetia. And very quickly, they made do with it… There were temples,
but very quickly, because there were invasions, because they had… They very quickly destroyed these
temples and with the stones, built an enclosure. And it was a fortified city,
it was a citadel, a real citadel
in which the Roman legions immediately established themselves first
for protection and then, quite simply, the kings of France. The first person to settle there
was Clovis. He is in Soissons, he has his capital,
but he realizes that Soissons is not very defensible,
and then he seeks to conquer the territories that will become France. And he has a choice,
he hesitates between Tours and Lutetia. And he chose Lutetia because it was
closer to Soissons, and apparently less complicated for him. This means that Paris,
the capital of France, is not at the center of France. It’s a bit poorly designed, very far north. Whereas if it had been Tours,
it would have been a completely different story and something else entirely. He will settle there and create the first royal palace
in the old Roman barracks . And up until the reign of Louis XIII, it was a royal palace that was carefully maintained. It’s there.
Saint-Louis lived there, Louis IX. All the kings lived there
and they looked at another citadel which was on the other side of the river which
was the Louvre, the citadel of the Louvre. And it was from Henry IV onwards that we began to breathe and to establish a palace, the Tuileries,
the Medici gallery, everything. We started to install things
that were like a palace in the countryside, a bit, in quotes,
it was outside the city, but it was in view. And that’s what’s quite interesting, to really understand what’s happening in this neighborhood, in this city of the City, which is moving more towards the west,
I mean from an urban point of view. The development of the Pont-Neuf will be
something very important in relation to everything that is happening,
I would say, in the city of Lutetia. The city of Lutetia consists of 14 parishes. Parishes with
approximately 1,000 inhabitants. That is to say, in the Middle Ages,
there were between 14,000 and 15,000 inhabitants living there. Those who live on the bridges,
there are the houses that are on the bridges, on the bridges,
there are all the small businesses. The Pont au Change
was where all the bankers who frequented Place du Châtelet lived. And so, you have to see,
it was really the city in its expression, with an old
Roman town to the south and what was the development
of the merchants’ town to the north. What I’m about to tell you is very important
, because everything related to money is on the right bank,
and everything related to the mind is on the left bank. What will be decisive
is the arrival in the 13th century of Notre-Dame de Paris,
the cathedral, which will not be a cathedral right away. What is important
is that around the Palais-Royal, the Palais-Royal, it needed a court
of accounts, it needed to manage the finances of the… It needed to administer justice. So,
the major chambers of accounts, or rather everything related to the court, were organized around the Palais-Royal. There and before it migrated to its territories and especially to Versailles. But there was a succession, a whole
aristocratic people and governance of Île-de-France. And the king will get out,
but everything will stay there. And the courthouse we
know, the current Court of Cassation,
is the direct legacy of this Palais-Royal; there are
still some towers, there is still the Conciergerie,
which has not moved since the Conciergerie. The clock, from the Clock Quay. This was the place where
the time was told at the king’s house. And especially the Sainte-Chapelle, which was
the chapel of the palace of Saint Louis. I say this because it was this whole aspect of the palace that prevailed in relation to the cathedral. So, by the time the cathedral arrives,
it will become the other monument. There is the palace which is to the west,
she will be the monument to the east. It is a monument that completely dominates
the city, that stands out from the city, that can be seen from the
Sainte-Geneviève mountain or from Montmartre or from the Chaillot hill. You see, we can see it very, very far away. And then, the closer you get,
the more it disappears. And when you enter the Île
de la Cité, you can no longer see it. We will only see it when we are
on the forecourt, that is to say on the few meters
that are in front of this monument. And the whole organization of the master
builders is to make a monument with
a parallax that, when you are at the base, gives the impression of being even
taller and even bigger than it is. If you look at the monument,
you will notice that the tallest towers have a small
festooning, a small stonework. People say: Look, they had time
to waste, so they made some little flowers. No, it’s like embroidery,
it’s to make it more beautiful, as far as possible,
to make the monument even taller, visually even taller. In the 18th century, the Age of Enlightenment, it was considered very decadent. They called it Gothic Art,
meaning Art of the Barbarians. And from then on,
the cathedral will suffer a lot of… Mansard will take care of it,
he will destroy the rood screen, he will break it down. People who often realize that it was
the revolution that destroyed Notre-Dame Cathedral, it was much more
Louis XV and Louis XVI than the revolution. You have this monument which will be
in its period of rejection, which, all of a sudden,
will become the jewel of this ensemble, to the detriment of everything else,
to the detriment of the Sainte-Chapelle, since the relics of the Sainte-Chapelle
will be transferred from the Sainte-Chapelle to Notre-Dame. And above all, there is a revival which is linked to one of Victor Hugo’s first novels,
in the 19th century, who will write Notre-Dame de Paris and who will tell this
absolutely formidable, disgusting legend, who are friends, who claim Notre-Dame de Paris as their place. Everything, Frolo, Quasimodo, a whole story that has been a tremendous success. This movement,
which will rehabilitate Gothic art, will result in a
rather violent redevelopment, which consists of freeing up
all the shops, everything that remained of the city around our soul of Paris. How did the city function
and evolve from Lutetia to the Paris we know today? Haussmann was a prefect,
a high-ranking civil servant of our state who first went to work in Burgundy. He was a prefect who had a
very broad vision of his mission and he was appointed prefect in Bordeaux. So, he arrives there and goes to bring on board
two engineers from the École Polytechnique. One is a water
and sewer specialist named Belgrand, and the other is a gardening enthusiast
named Alphand. And this team will create
the modern Bordeaux. They will make Bordeaux
a modern city before many other cities in Europe. Very enthusiastic about the work of Prefect
Haussmann and his team in Bordeaux, Napoleon III quickly appointed him Prefect
of the Seine, from June 1853 to January 1870. From the moment of his appointment, he entrusted him with
the mission of cleaning up and beautifying Paris. Building on his successes in Bordeaux,
Haussmann will not come alone. And Haussmann had the good idea of ​​saying
to Alphand and Belgrand: You follow me. And Alphand will do all the parks in Paris,
the Buttes-Chaumont, the Monceau park, all the Squares. And Belgrand will do the whole system
of the entire unitary sewer system of Paris, with sludge discharged at Aschères. In the mid-19th century, the
historic center of Paris was still medieval. The streets there are still narrow,
poorly lit and unsanitary. Like the western districts of London,
rebuilt after the great fire of 1666,
the emperor wanted the same quality of hygiene and modernism for his capital. The cholera epidemic of 1832
greatly motivated this desire for sanitation. This campaign is entitled: Paris
in Belly, Paris expands, Paris cleans up. His idea
is to create wide avenues that free up traffic
around Paris. The Paris that Haussmann organized
with what are called the Promenades of Paris, with its plantations for food. He is the one speaking today,
he had a very modern vision, today we are talking about redeveloping Paris. The first avenues that were lined with
trees were in Paris, and it was under the impetus of Alphand,
who designed the tree grids so that the trees could breathe
rainwater, who designed the benches and the garbage cans. He organizes everything. The Boulevard de Sébastopol
is a model of its kind. Napoleon III and therefore Prefect Haussmann had the idea of ​​creating two bridgeheads: the Place du Châtelet and on the other side, the Place Saint-Michel. The Chamber of Notaries,
the two theatres, the city theatre, the Châtelet theatre. And on the other side,
the famous Boulevard Saint-Michel and the
Davyou fountain, the Saint-Michel fountain. And this
clearly shows how the island is extracted from the city towards the two abutments, right bank and left bank, to anchor this city as the heart of the city. That was the intention. And we completely free up
the forecourt and the esplanade. Another, more political, objective
was to prevent possible popular uprisings that would be frequent in Paris. By demolishing the old center of Paris,
Haussmann disrupted any potential insecurity of workers’ protection by scattering centers of protest
in the new districts. Haussmann was obsessed
with the straight line. It’s the cult of the 19th century axis. Haussmann also had
bridges built or rebuilt over the Seine, including the Sully bridge, the
Saint-Michel bridge and the Notre-Dame bridge. But beyond these gigantic works,
Baron Haussmann was responsible for the aesthetic homogeneity
of the architecture of Parisian buildings. According to estimates,
Haussmann changed 60% of Paris, with
18,000 houses demolished between 1852 and 1868, including 4,349 before
the extension of the Paris city limits in 1860. The new regulations imposing
high-standard construction excluded the less affluent classes. Haussmann makes no secret of it. He will write to Napoleon III that
the high cost of rents and food must be accepted to a fair extent as a useful aid in defending Paris against the invasion
of workers from the provinces. Despite the significant improvement
in hygiene in the capital, his work remains contested
because of the extent of the sacrifices made and the authoritarian nature
of the methods employed. On the other hand, the puddles,
stagnant pools and other bodies of water caused by the construction work persisted for a long time
and thus promoted malaria in Paris. In order to save the image of old Paris,
he entrusted Charles Marville with the mission of photographing the capital
before and during the works. The expropriation laws later led to
numerous disputes and drove many
small property owners, dispossessed of their assets, into bankruptcy. In his novel, La Curée,
Émile Zola denounced these speculative and dubious financial maneuvers. When Haussmann made this esplanade, rebuilt the police headquarters, rebuilt the town hall which
straddled the island of the Cité, the left bank, and the Metz on the
right bank, he believed he was doing urban sanitation, rebuilt the Palace of Justice, everything. We’re completely rebuilding a neighborhood. And somewhere, he doesn’t know it,
but he’s drying it out. Indeed, millions
of tourists will be arriving today. The development of tourism
will bring lots of people there. But it lacks the Parisian soul and the challenge of all projects today, including ours, is how to
bring Lutetia back to Paris. One
of the consequences of this work was the sharp decline in the population
of the Île de la Cité in the 1860s. Most of the
residential areas were replaced by administrative
and hospital buildings, as well as squares and esplanades. From more than 15,600 inhabitants in 1800,
the population has now fallen below 900 inhabitants. The island of Cité in figures:
an area of ​​23 hectares, 2,500 meters of Seine riverbank,
900 inhabitants, 10,000 daily employees, 13 million tourists per year. Despite the island’s small size,
it is full of priceless treasures, some of which date back to the Middle Ages. Here are a few examples. As early as the 6th century, Clovis established
his royal residence on the Île de la Cité. In 1200, Philip Augustus made the Palais
de la Cité the seat of Capetian power. Saint Louis embellished it
by erecting the Sainte-Chapelle. Philip the Fair enlarged the palace to
house the institutions of the kingdom’s administration. The courthouse. Located since its origin in the Palais
de la Cité, there are still important vestiges from the time when the island
was the residence of the kings. The great hall with its kitchen,
the Conciergerie, the Sainte-Chapelle. The palace is the nerve center
of the French judicial system, since it houses, in particular, the Court
of Cassation, which is its highest jurisdiction. The Sainte-Chapelle. Having acquired
the Holy Crown around 1239, Saint Louis decided to build a
chapel designed as a true shrine for the veneration of the relics. The new building was located
in the Palais de la Cité,
Saint Louis’s main residence, and replaced the old
Saint-Nicolas chapel, which was then destroyed. The Commercial Court. Originally created in Lyon in 1419,
an edict of 1563 created a consular jurisdiction in Paris,
composed of a judge and four elected consuls. The Criminal Court. It is a specialized chamber,
ruling in the first instance in criminal matters on offences classified as
misdemeanors and whose prison sentences cannot
exceed ten years. The police headquarters. Inheriting from the watch,
the Parisian police were under the authority of the State from Colbert
and the lieutenant general of the police, Gabriel Nicolas de la Rémi,
until the revolution. It was Bonaparte who created the magistracy
of the prefect of police in February. The prefect of police took over
the responsibilities of the lieutenant general of police to exercise powers
previously devolved to the provost of Paris. The Clock Tower. King John II the Good had
a tower built between 1350 and 1353 which later became the Clock Tower
of the Palais de la Cité. She played a watch role
for the security of the palace. The Concierge Service. Under the Monarchy, the concierge
was a high-ranking figure in the kingdom. He is appointed by the king to maintain
order, police, and register prisoners. The most famous prisoner
of the Conciergerie was Marie Antoinette, who spent her last weeks there from
August 2 to October 16, 1793, until her trial which sent her to the guillotine. The Pont-Neuf,
initiated by Henri III and completed under Henri IV, is the first bridge
on the Seine without dwellings. It is also the first to be
equipped with sidewalks for pedestrians. Vergalan Square. The Square owes its name to Henry IV,
nicknamed the gallant worm, because of his taste for seduction,
even in old age. Place Dauphine. It was renamed in honor
of the Dauphin, the future Louis XIII. The place brings together three islets of the Seine. The equestrian statue of Henry IV. Inaugurated in 1614 with great pomp,
it was dismantled and melted down during the French Revolution.
The new statue was unveiled under Louis XVIII. At the other end of the island is
the Square de l’Île-de-France. In 1687, a first garden reserved
for men was part of the enclosure of the canons of the cathedral. In 1868, Prefect Haussmann had
the capital’s morgue built there. It was moved in 1914
to the Quai de la Rappée and replaced by the current Square. To the southwest of the Square,
a memorial to the martyrs of the deportation was built from 1954 to 1964. Inaugurated on April 12, 1962 by General
de Gaulle, the monument is dedicated to the memory of deportees who left from France. Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. This masterpiece of
Gothic architecture was built between 1163 and 1330. It is the most visited monument
in France, with more than 35,000 people per day. The Hôtel-Dieu in Paris. Created in 651 by the Parisian bishop
Saint-Landry, it was the symbol of charity and hospitality. The Hôtel-Dieu is the
oldest hospital in the capital. Charlemagne-et-céleudes. The statue was presented in bronze
at the Universal Exhibition in 1878. It was supposedly preserved during
the German occupation due to the importance of Charlemagne
in German history. The archaeological crypt. It features archaeological remains
from Antiquity to the 19th century, discovered during excavations
carried out between 1965 and 1972. The garden, Jean XXIII. The Fountain of the Virgin. The Wallace fountains. Paris, besieged between September 1870
and January 1871 by the Prussians, experienced a terrible winter. The English collector Richard Wallace, an
eminent donor, decided to help the poorest by offering the city of Paris
fountains allowing free access to drinking water. The four caryatids represent
goodness, simplicity, charity, and sobriety. They are all different. They also represent
the four seasons. Simplicity symbolizes spring and
the present moment, charity symbolizes summer, sobriety symbolizes autumn, and kindness symbolizes winter. The zero point. The zero point of the roads of France is
the zero point of Paris, that is to say the zero kilometer point
of the roads leaving the capital which is used as a reference for calculating
distances with other cities in France.
This is where it all begins. The bridges of Paris bear witness
to the historical heritage of the capital. Let us therefore examine the history
of the bridges of the Île de la Cité. The Pont-Saint-Louis. The Pont-Saint-Louis connects the Île
de la Cité to the Île Saint-Louis. The current bridge is the seventh
linking the two islands since 1634. The first was called
Pont-Saint-Landry or Pont-de-Bois. Completed in 1634, it was damaged by the debacle of 1709 and destroyed in 1710. It was rebuilt in 1717, still
in wood, and was called Pont-Rouge. This bridge withstood the flood of 1740,
but collapsed during that of 1795. The new bridge was built in 1804,
but with stone abutments and piers. It has two arches and was
only used by pedestrians. Following a subsidence,
it was demolished in 1811. From 1842 to 1862 the first
Saint-Louis bridge was built, a suspended metal footbridge,
closed to cars. Due to the collapse of the bridge
which claimed the lives of three people, it was replaced in 1941
by a temporary footbridge. Work on the current bridge did not
begin until 1969 and was completed in 1970. The Archbishop’s Bridge. The Archbishop’s Bridge is
68 meters long and 11 meters wide. It features three stone arches. It is the narrowest bridge
in the capital. It takes its name from the archbishopric which was
located southeast of Notre-Dame, between the cathedral and the Seine. In September 1911, this bridge was
the site of a spectacular accident. A vehicle belonging to the Compagnie générale
des omnibus did indeed fall from the bridge into the Seine. The Pont-au-Double. The Pont-Au-Double is named as such
because originally there was a toll for
crossing it which was two deniers, or one double denier. In 1515, Francis I was asked
to build a bridge over the small branch of the Seine in order to house
sick people near the Hôtel-Dieu. But the work did not begin
until 1626 and was completed in 1632. The bridge collapsed on December 31, 1709
and was immediately rebuilt. To facilitate navigation,
the bridge was destroyed in 1847 and rebuilt with a single span. But from 1883 onwards,
the major urban development works in the district led to its relocation along the axis
of the rue d’Arcole and the pont d’Arcole to form a coherent north-south axis. The little cardinal bridge of Stiget. The current Petit Pont
was built in 1853. It is the smallest of the bridges in Paris. Its name comes from the fact that
in Gallo-Roman times it crossed the Petit Bras de la Seine. Made of wood, it was particularly
exposed to the floods of the Seine. To the Seine and to fires,
and this continued until the 15th century. In 1409, the bridge was built of stone. Shops and homes
are being established there. In 1702, it was part of the
city district, had 26 houses and five lanterns. After several collapses,
the small bridge and all the houses built on it were completely
destroyed by fire in 1718. It was replaced a year later
and the construction of dwellings there was prohibited. From 1850 to 1853,
a new single-arch bridge was built using cement and millstone. In June 2013,
it was renamed Petit Pont Cardinal Lustiger,
after the man who was Archbishop of Paris from 1981 to 2005, Jean-Marie Lustiger. The Saint-Michel Bridge. The Saint-Michel bridge was built in 1857
and is 62 meters long and 30 meters wide. At the center of the transom of each pier, there
is an N, recalling the imperial emblem of Napoleon III.
The decision to build the first stone bridge at this location was made in 1353. Quickly filled with houses, the whole
was swept away by the Seine in 1407. Very quickly rebuilt,
the bridge received the name Saint-Michel bridge in 1424 because
of its proximity to the Saint-Michel chapel. It was in turn destroyed
by a flood of the Seine in 1547. The bridge, rebuilt in stone,
was surrounded by 32 houses which did not disappear until the beginning of the 19th century,
following an imperial decree of 1807. The Pont-Neuf. The Pont-Neuf owes its
name to its innovative nature. Indeed, it is devoid of dwellings
and is equipped with sidewalks, thus protecting pedestrians
from mud and horses. It is the very first stone bridge
in the capital to completely cross the Seine. It is the oldest bridge in Paris and its
third longest at 238 meters. Begun under Henry III,
its construction continued until 1607, during the reign of Henry IV. It was the latter who opted
for a bridge without a house.
Shops are being built in the Corbeilles. In 1702, the bridge, which is part
of the Cité district, had about twenty of them and as many long-term ones. In the 19th century,
the baskets were emptied. The last shop
disappeared around 1854. During the construction of the Pont-Neuf,
on January 2, 1602, the king authorized the construction of a large water pump. This pump is the first
water lifting machine built in Paris. She was living in a small
apartment building on stilts. The Pont-Auchanges. The Pont-Auchanges connects the island of the Cité
from the Palais de Justice, the Conciergerie and the Tribunal de Commerce
to the right bank, at the level of the Théâtre du Châtelain.
Dauphont. This bridge owes its name to the money changers,
the brokers of Change and Goldsmith, who established themselves on the bridge
by order of Louis VII. The current Pont-Auchanges was built
from 1858 to 1860, during the reign of Napoleon III,
and therefore bears his imperial monogram like its counterpart on the left bank,
the Pont Saint-Michel. The first bridge was
then called the Great Bridge. Until 1280, it was regularly
swept away by the floods of the Seine. Destroyed by fire in 1621,
it was rebuilt from 1639 to 1647, at the expense of its inhabitants, and was
at the time the largest in the capital. The houses it supported
were razed at the end of the 18th century. The Notre-Dame bridge. The Notre-Dame bridge occupies the site
of one of the very first bridges in the capital, the Grand Pont. After numerous destructions due
to Norman attacks in the Middle Ages, a new bridge was built in 1421. Sixty houses were built there,
thirty on each side of the bridge, with rich shops at their base,
including several bookshops and armories which made the bridge famous. On October 25,
1499, during a flood of the Seine, the bridge opened slightly and the houses collapsed. Of great economic importance to
the city, it was quickly rebuilt. The building, completed in 1512, is a
very busy and prestigious commercial place. François I made his
triumphant entry into Paris there in 1515. In 1769, the Notre-Dame bridge was the
oldest bridge in existence in Paris. By letters patent from the king,
the dwellings that have become unsanitary and which surmount it must be destroyed. Following no fewer than 35
river accidents between 1891 and 1910, it was nicknamed the Devil’s Bridge. To remedy these numerous
navigation problems, it was decided to demolish the three
central arches and rebuild the bridge with a 60-meter span arch. Near the Notre-Dame bridge,
two low bridges were built around 1670 to serve
the Parisian fountains. The Arcole Bridge. The Pont d’Arcole is the first
Parisian bridge made of iron. It was built in 1854. It is 20 meters wide and has
a single arch of 80 meters. These culets are made of dressed stone. The origin of its name is unclear. Indeed, it could refer
to the young Arcole, killed during the Three Glorious Days during
a counter-attack by the Insurgents against the town hall. Mortally wounded, he is said to have cried out:
My friends, do you remember that my name is Harcole? But he was also able to evoke the memory of
Bonaparte at the Battle of Arcole Bridge. It was initially called Pont de la
Greffe during its first two years. The footbridge, built in 1828,
would later take its current name. It was replaced in 1854
by a metal structure. This is the first bridge without supports
over the Seine made entirely of iron and no longer of cast iron. The Île de la Cité is an island of contrasts or paradoxes. Indeed,
there is a natural axis for the organization of space and traffic flows
that runs parallel to the course of the river. This axis has been completely
preserved on the island of Saint-Louis. This is Saint-Louis Street in Lille. But this axis was thwarted
on the Île de la Cité. Although geographically at the heart
of the capital of Greater Paris and the Île-de-France region,
the island is not its beating heart. After the closing time of
public services, none of the activity of the Saint-Michel,
Les Halles, Châtelet or Marais districts can be found. The strong institutional presence
restricts normal life. When suddenly, they bring the beggars, the beggars of Paris, back to
the esplanade to go and save Esmeralda. That’s the real, real, real question. And what is
a modern Paris? It’s work, it’s observation,
it’s acupuncture. And so, this is somewhat contradictory
to a global view of things. I believe such a crossroads has a story behind it, the Pont Saint-Louis. There are street performers on the Pont
Saint-Louis, but not many. But there are still some there. There’s always one with a puppet,
a violinist, a piano. They’re bizarre street performers. It revives a tradition
of entertainment on the bridges of Paris. But I’m sure they disappear
at 6:00 PM or 8:00 PM. The overall project is developed
into a set of 35 modular proposals according to a global perspective
whose objective is the reintegration of the island into urban life
and into the heart of the capital. From the island. Remodel the Palace Square with
a standardization of the ground surfaces and street furniture in the style of
St. Mars Square in Venice. Investing in the lower spaces of the island
to create circulation zones without disrupting the activity
of a courthouse with an exit from the courthouse leading directly
onto Place Dauphine. Create meeting
and retail spaces in the wings of the Hôtel-Dieu, with
glass ceilings to let in light. Exposing the archaeological crypt in front of the cathedral by transforming the forecourt into a huge glass ceiling. Open direct access to the quay via
underground car parks to facilitate the movement of people
and nightlife. If I have to conclude,
I will express it as an architect. It is a place that
was originally full. A citadel full of people,
with activities, with exchanges, with a king, with power. And what was made of stone,
of Roman stone, of citadel, of enclosure, all of a sudden,
had an architectural emergence in the creation of this
cathedral which has the art of emptiness. And all of a sudden, it’s empty. But this art of emptiness, Gothic, was full of its faithful followers. It was a huge place to bring together
lots of people, to have mad parties,
to hold hostage funerals, to hold magnificent celebrations, edeums,
lots of things, lots of demonstrations, music. The whole question
is, how do we fill this void? How do we bring the Parisians back? Tourists aren’t hard to find. It’s one of the most
visited monuments in Paris, I repeat. But how do you bring Parisians back? That is to say, people in the evening. The people who come… Because Paris is 24/7. There are neighborhoods,
some neighborhoods, including this one. They do not live at night. How do we give it back its life? How do we make this place Monlieu?

Au cœur de la Seine, 23 hectares ont façonné l’histoire de la capitale.

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De Lutèce à Paris, l’Île de la Cité fut place forte romaine, résidence des rois, puis centre judiciaire et spirituel. Notre-Dame, la Sainte-Chapelle, la Conciergerie et le Pont-Neuf racontent mille ans d’urbanité. Au XIXᵉ siècle, Haussmann ouvre boulevards, parcs et égouts modernes, transformant durablement le paysage. Aujourd’hui, l’île conjugue trésors médiévaux, grands ponts parisiens et défis urbains : comment redonner de la vie à ce cœur historique, de jour comme de nuit ?

Une traversée claire et documentée pour comprendre hier, admirer aujourd’hui et imaginer demain.

PARIS AU PLURIEL – PARIS ÎLE DE LA CITÉ
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