This page shows the longest segment of the wall in the open air. It is situated rue des Jardins St Pail, behing St Paul St Louis church, visible in the middle picture. On about 80 meters you can see a whole tower and the beginning of a second one. The latter is called Montgomery from the name of the unfotunate knight who unwillingly killed king Heny II during a tournament in 1562. He would have been imprisoned in that tower.
Along Lycée Charlemagne the remnant of a tower. mongst the male celebreties to have studied at Lycée Charlemagne one can mention : Michelet, Victor Cousin, Bonnardot, Théophile Gautier, Paul Meurice and Gérard de Nerval. In his Dictionnaire Historique des rues de Paris (Historical Dictionary of the streets of Paris) , Jacques Hillairet writes the following about the rampart: "After the gate that has replaced the old pedimented stone door, the passage leading to the lycée runs alongside the right hand side of the site of Philip-Augustus's rampart, the foundations of which are still in existence. The shallow logde of the doorkeeper is situated in the thickness of this wall. The passage leads to a tower ... "
These two photos dating from 1984 show the poor state of the southern tower which has been restored, a necessary but somewhat harsh endeavour, as you can see from the first photo ot the page.
