Le Marais
Historic neighbourhood layered with royal mansions, a Yiddish-speaking past, and vivid LGBTQ+ life.
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This guide to Le Marais in Paris opens in July 1942 with a letter from a woman who lived a few streets from where you stand. It follows the Yiddish-speaking Pletzl that grew here between 1880 and 1939, along rue des Rosiers and up to a school on rue des Hospitalières-Saint-Gervais. It also reaches back to the swamp that gave the district its name and the royal court that once filled its mansions. Best heard on rue des Rosiers, with the street around you.
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