Rue Saint-Paul Street
Cobblestone lane laid out in the sixteen seventies, lined with centuries-old stone facades and market halls.
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This guide to Rue Saint-Paul in Montreal centers on Marie-Joseph Angelique, an enslaved Black woman who lived a few doors from these cobblestones, laid in 1672. In the night of April 10, 1734, a fire broke out on the street and spread fast, and Angelique, who had just learned she was about to be sold away from a man she loved, came under suspicion. Best heard walking east along the same uneven stones, toward the market a few blocks ahead.
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