Le Marais spans Paris’s 3rd and 4th arrondissements, a historic district of medieval lanes and 17th-century mansions that largely escaped Baron Haussmann’s 19th-century redesign of the city.
One of the Few Neighborhoods Haussmann Didn’t Touch
While much of Paris was rebuilt with wide boulevards in the 1800s, Le Marais kept its narrow, winding medieval street plan, giving it a noticeably different character from the grand avenues elsewhere in the city.
Museums and Place des Vosges Within Walking Distance
The Picasso Museum, the Carnavalet Museum, and Place des Vosges all sit inside Le Marais, and Notre Dame, Sainte-Chapelle, and the Louvre are all a manageable walk away.
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