Rue des Francs-Bourgeois

Le Marais, Paris

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"You've reached the Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, the main shopping spine of the Marais. If the street seems to bend for no reason, that's because it does. This is what Paris looked like before Paris looked like Paris. In the eighteen hundreds, Baron Haussmann bulldozed most of the medieval city and replaced it with those wide boulevards and uniform cream buildings everyone photographs."

Hear the full story in the app — narrated and timed to play right where you're standing.

The Reveal

This stop is part of the tour’s larger story. An optional reveal at the end lets you revisit which details stayed perfectly honest and which got a little extra help.

Hear the full story at Rue des Francs-Bourgeois

This is just one of 9 stops on the Le Marais: Mansions, Masterpieces & the Best Falafel in Europe tour. Download the app, put in your headphones, and experience it for real.

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