Maison de Victor Hugo
Opening times: 10am–6pm Tue–Sun
Closed public hols
Library: by appointment only
Website:
www.musee-hugo.paris.frTel: 01. 42 72 10 16
Hôtel de Sully
Opening times: Noon–7pm Tue–Fri; 10am–7pm Sat, Sun
Closed 1 Jan, 1 May, 1 and 11 Nov, 25 Dec
Website:
www.jeudepaume.orgTel: 01. 42 74 47 75
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Leave the Hôtel de Sully via the rue St-Antoine exit and turn right. The church of St-Paul-St-Louis will be on your left after a short distance. Located on one of the Marais’ main streets, this impressive church was commissioned by the Jesuits, and the church’s foundation stone was laid by Louis XIII himself in 1627. Completed in 1641, its design was influenced by the Gesu church in Rome. The neighbouring Lycée Charlemagne was originally a convent attached to the church, it became a school after the Jesuits were expelled from France in 1763. The 60-metre (180-foot) dome was a model for the later Dôme church at Les Invalides. The church was damaged during the Revolution, and
most of its treasures were also removed. Delacroix’s masterpiece Christ in the Garden of Olives can, however, still be seen near the entrance.
St-Paul-St-Louis
Opening times: 8am–8pm daily
Tel: 01. 42 72 30 32
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Continue along rue St-Antoine and veer to the left where the road splits in two. Turn left onto rue du Prévôt and then cross rue Charlemagne onto rue de Figuier and the Hôtel de Sens will be at the end on your right at No. 1. One of the few medieval buildings left in central Paris, it takes its name from the archbishops of Sens, who used to own it. It now houses the Forney fine arts library. Built between 1475 and 1507, stylistically it straddles the late Gothic and early Renaissance periods. Despite some large windows the whole building still seems to have the air of a fortified castle, which is basically what it was.
Occupied by various important aristocratic families, including the Bourbons and the Guise, it is where Cardinal de Pellevé is supposed to have died of rage when he heard that the Protestant King Henri IV had
Le Marais
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