Step Into History
Walk Paris in 1789
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Step Into History · City walk
Revolutionary Paris, 1789
Paris in 1789 stands at the edge of upheaval: Enlightenment ideas and royal spectacle meet crowded markets, artisans' workshops and barricade-ready faubourgs. The walk moves from high viewpoints and river quays into the Palais‑Royal arcades full of pamphleteers, past the Tuileries gardens and the Bastille's towers, through the wooden benches of the Faubourg Saint‑Antoine workshops where furniture and arms are made, and into the squares where cockades appear on coats and hats.
36 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 14 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Paris as it stood in 1789 (“Paris in the 18th century”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Montmartre Hill
- 2. Porte Saint‑Martin
- 3. Rue Saint‑Denis
- ↳ Rue Saint‑Denis Printing Press · interior
- 4. Les Halles
- ↳ Grande Halles Meat Hall · interior
- 5. Pont au Change
- ↳ Moneychangers' Counting House · interior
- 6. Place Dauphine
- ↳ Place Dauphine Inn Parlor · interior
- 7. Parvis de Notre‑Dame
- ↳ Notre-Dame Nave · interior
- 8. Quai des Orfèvres
- ↳ Sainte-Chapelle Upper Chapel · interior
- 9. Pont Neuf
- 10. Palais‑Royal Arcades
- ↳ Café de Foy Coffee Room · interior
- 11. Jardin du Palais‑Royal
- ↳ Salon of the Philosophes · interior
- 12. Rue de Richelieu
- ↳ Royal Library Reading Room · interior
- 13. Place Vendôme
- ↳ Hôtel Particulier Grand Salon · interior
- 14. Rue Saint‑Honoré
- 15. Tuileries Garden
- ↳ Tuileries Pavilion Salon · interior
- 16. Quai des Tuileries
- 17. Place Louis‑XV
- 18. Hôtel de Ville
- ↳ City Council Chamber · interior
- 19. Rue Saint‑Antoine
- 20. Faubourg Workshops
- ↳ Master Joiner's Workshop · interior
- 21. Place de la Bastille
- ↳ Gate Courtyard of the Bastille · interior
- 22. Butte de Belleville