Visite guidée : Les passages couverts du quartier du Palais Royal

Paris without its covered passages would no longer be Paris. They witnessed the life of our capital at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Their construction lasted from the end of the 18th century until the Second Empire. In 1850, there were about fifty in Paris. There is a little more 10 left today.

Witnessing a Paris in full boil, they were the precursors of modern shopping galleries but with more charm. They knew the innovations and fashions of the first half of the nineteenth century: the use of metallurgy, gas lighting, cafes, restaurants, theaters. Parisians of all social conditions found themselves there, strolled from shops to shops, devised in cafés, enjoyed themselves in the theater or in cabarets, rested in the baths, sought the soulmate or a "soul swallow"...

Today, these covered passages have preserved moving traces of this rich past and relive new hours with their restaurants and atypical shops.

During this walk in the heart of Paris, you will discover four passages and a fifth disappeared. They are undoubtedly the most beautiful and the most loaded of history. We will evoke the atmosphere of the nineteenth century but also funny anecdotes, famous writers, thieves, a lot of history and luxury shops.