10 rue des Rosiers the restaurants
"les 7 lézards" (the 7 lizzards) shelters in its back yard a part
of the wall that has become very ugly, but genuine. That part was
formerly inside the garden of the Hotel d'Albret. Alexandre Gaudy,
in his book "A la Découverte
de l'Enceinte de Philippe Auguste" (discovreing Philippe Auguste's
wall) tells us that half a tower would have survived at n° 8, and
its outside coating would be visible at the back of the garden
situated 33 rue des Francs Bourgeois, in a workshop.
This garden seems to be between 8-10 rue des Rosiers and 31 rue
des Francs-Bourgeois, house of the Direction des Affaires Culturelles
de la ville de Paris. A very nice civil servant working there has
told us that a project to give public access to that garden was
in progress. Let's meet there in 10 years ... |