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What's on the site of 398-400 Rue Saint-Honoré at the moment?
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows what's currently on the site of 398-400 Rue Saint-Honoré, Duplay house as was? I've avoided going for years because of the fur shop - now there seems to be a tea shop/cafe when I google it. Either way, I was under the impression there wasn't much of the original building left (there seems to be a dispute about whether the whole thing was rebuilt when the extra floors were added in the 19thc, and the ground floor wall in the courtyard was taken out and made into a glass-fronted bar in the 1950's), but there's a right-wing website chatroom boasting of disrupting the 28th July commemorations in the courtyard last year (if they want a monarch, they can have ours!).
So, does any of it still exist, has it been modernised inside beyond recognition, does the courtyard survive, is it accessible to the public, and is the door that used to open onto the alternative staircase (and that had a preservation order put on it in the 1950's) still there?
So, does any of it still exist, has it been modernised inside beyond recognition, does the courtyard survive, is it accessible to the public, and is the door that used to open onto the alternative staircase (and that had a preservation order put on it in the 1950's) still there?
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and fainting! Named after the author of Le Rouge et Le Noir, who fainted in Florence). Did the man in the window notice you and come to your aid? "A lost Robespierriste - or Desmoulinsiste..!"
Google comes up with a cafe called 'Les Delices De Manon' or the evil fur shop of Feraud (white fronted)- and also I've just found offices and apartments to let! (Some tourist website from last year with someone asking "I've booked a room in 398-400, is it a nice neighbourhood?" Argh! It's clearly wasted on them!). There's also a plaque high up which royalists regularly destroy.
Thanks, and good luck with your search for Marat! (And what happened to his embalmed heart?)
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