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Paris still has a score of passages covered several streets that connect them through buildings. These passages or galleries, for the most part, been well restored and still home to shops or cafes known, in a somewhat outdated.
Gallery Vivienne is a passage in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. It is built in 1823 by the President of the Chamber of Notaries Marchoux, the location of hotels Vanel de Serrant and the transition of small-fathers, according to plans designed by the architect François Jean Delannoy. This creates a Pompeian-style decor neo-classical covered with an elegant glass, made of mosaics, paintings and sculptures exalting trade. The restoration work to rehabilitate the caduceus, anchor bearing plenty that adorn the windows of half-moons and goddesses and nymphs that decorate the rotunda. The mosaics are signed ground G. Faccini. The large gallery of 42 m in length is followed by a glass rotunda with a hemispherical glass dome, all being original tiles for a modulated ventilation. Galerie Vivienne panoramic photo 360.
Inaugurated in 1826 under the name Marchoux, then quickly named Vivienne, the gallery takes advantage of its location. It attracts many visitors with its shops tailor, shoemaker, wine merchant, restaurateur, bookseller, Mercier, confectioner, merchant prints ... panoramic images paris covered passages.
Located between the Palais Royal, declining stocks and Grands Boulevards, this passage is experiencing considerable success until the end of the Second Empire. But the gallery loses some of its appeal with the relocation of businesses to the prestigious Madeleine and the Champs-Elysees and particularly because of the Revolution Haussmannian. No other is not better placed than him to be a home burning of movement and activity. The monumental staircase of the number 13 led to the former home of Vidocq after his disgrace. This Bagnard became head of a police squad formed of former criminals. Vivienne resists departure of the Duke of Orleans, became Louis-Philippe, to the Tuileries. There is a historical competition with the gallery Colbert nearby. Since 1960, the gallery is again very active. It presents fashion and decoration, fashion parades are held. The installation of Jean-Paul Gaultier and Yuki Torii in 1986 has led to the resurrection of the gallery. panoramic paris pictures. It now hosts many shops ready-to-wear and decorative items. |
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