Le Marais

This guide to Le Marais in Paris opens with a letter sent from a detention camp in July 1942 by a woman taken from her apartment on rue Vieille-du-Temple, and traces the Yiddish-speaking Jewish community that had settled these streets between 1880 and 1939. It also reaches back further, to the monks who drained this marshland centuries earlier and the aristocrats who later built Place des Vosges, and forward to the waves of artists and LGBTQ life that reshaped the quarter. Listen on rue des Rosiers, where that older neighborhood still echoes.