A Secret Springtime Square in the 9th - Paris Live #112

situated here give us a composition that we can be proud of something like that excellent thanks everybody thanks to those of you who showed up early love to see that i appreciate it i'll wait just one minute for everybody to get connected here if you have to be watching this on replay after the fact you may want to fast forward just about one minute or so hi everybody thank you so much seems that the technology gods are being nice to us today and we are connected this is a reschedule of what i tried to do yesterday and the weather is just as beautiful it's in fact perhaps even more quiet in this square than it was yesterday which is great because that's what i was hoping to convey to you all so as you can hear we've got the the water flowing on the fountain and the birds chirping and the sun dappling across the limestone which is what we what we all come for when we think of springtime in paris ricky beltran says looks great thank you i appreciate that so let's jump right into it folks and um i want to remind you again if you're watching live one great way to support this project is you can send a super chat my way and i'll pop up on my screen and i'll give you a shout out and a thank you because that is much appreciated and if you're not a patreon member you can find that link in the description as well as the link to my paris merch store and so a lot of different ways my paypal address is down there and a lot of different ways that you can help support the cause and help me continue this very passionate project of mine nancy says such a lovely view jennifer robinson is here thanks everybody for showing up on this rescheduled episode number 112. so i called this one a secret springtime square in the ninth we are in the ninth ahondi small on the right bank of paris and this this discovery back when i found this spot was really it still goes down as one of my favorite discoveries of the right bank and it's called the site de trivis site de trevis and we'll talk a little bit about that name in a second but we're in the night time this night honestly this quiet spot here sandwiched between the very busy areas of the galdung and the grand boulevard and the passage coupe and the music levan and even the we're sort of in the region of the opera as well so it's really quite um you know this is what we love about paris is what the city does so well is that despite the commotion you can always find these little these little nooks and this is in fact a used to be a private square with gates on either end of each street there are two streets that you can access this from the north and south and there used to be private gates that wouldn't allow anybody in but those were removed a long time ago so the site the travis here is named after the duktites he was a military commander of the french revolution and the napoleonic wars and he made quite a name for himself he lived in a mansion that was nearby in fact it still is it's known as the hotel boni bony but it was where the duke declaves lived in the um particularly in the early 1800s and uh it's named after him the original promoter of the square of the site or one of the promoters called it and i quote the most pleasant retreat amidst the noises of business and pleasure which i think is the best way to put it now this fountain that we're looking at here and it doesn't get a lot of sunlight this time of year as you can see but we'll do i'll do my best to give you a view of the fountain but it is uh by a guy a sculptor called francisco durey and he did a lot of work in paris for example he's got work in laysan valid and the church of la madland and even versailles but notably a lot of you lovers of the fontan san michel right there in the latin quarter that beautiful cast of characters of the the bronze of samichel himself with his sword pointing up to heaven stepping down on on the devil all of that was sculpted by this same gentleman by the name of francisco di and there are three toga clad nymphs in in bronze which is how i like my nymphs i like them to be bronzed and toga clad my personal preference this period was the restoration and so we're going to see some some architecture from that period of when they were restoring the bourbon monarchy post french revolution and before i forget while we're here i just want to show you where where i have the tripod set up first of all a little speaking of super chat a little donation of a 50 cent piece here but i decided we'll leave that for somebody who who might need it a little more than we do so there's just you know you come here you find money on the on the ground that's how magical it is but if i want to zoom in here and what you'll see here are fossilized creatures and i've mentioned this once or twice before but it's a reminder that the stone that they quarried to build paris is between 40 and 45 million years old this is all prehistoric stone so it's just i always get a kick out of that when we think about how old paris is in fact you could if you want to be cheeky about it you could make a um you could describe paris as a prehistoric city because most of the stone used to build it is from that period it's all many many millions of years old so let me give you the the once over here of the site de trevis this is pre osman so this is before all of the rules about architecture being uniform and being similar so you have for that reason you have a lot of different styles here some nice reliefs there and these are all residential apartment buildings what happened during that period of the restoration of the bourbon monarchs you had um a big boom of construction here in the ninth house mall notably for the hotel particularly the the private mansions and also some very high class buildings like this this is this all dates to the mostly the 18 30s 1840s and it's considered a style of let me grab my bag here that would be a shame if i forgot my backpack you leave a 50 cent piece on the ground and you lose a backpack in the process the bad trade-off so this is described as neo-renaissance and uh let me show you if you can see up above these balconies there are some beautiful corinthian columns you can see the tops of those quote unquote columns embedded in the side of the wall and that is um those are decidedly very renaissance in style let me try to show you this one of getting hit by a car and the brick as well could be considered a renaissance affectation of sorts nice little iron work there on the windows let's go back out let me show you the name of this place the sign for those interested you can see named after this gent the duke and also a marichal de france let's zoom in on these little babies thanks john macarthur i can see that in the comments i appreciate the support hope you're all enjoying your sunday if you're just joining live this is the naita homie small normally you know a district with a lot of commotion and a lot of activity via the train stations and the opera house and like the grand boulevard etc but we're in this quiet little square look at these corals underneath the the balconies are just delicious oh yeah hey andrew miles is joining us hi andrea it's great to have you here thanks everybody for joining this rescheduled episode and then there's an awning to die for here check this thing out love the shape of this thank you bonnie i see you there in the comments i appreciate the support that's great so i really want to give this give this awning the once over because the shape of it is is rather unique it's it's quite tall and thin it's beaten up a bit and broken in some areas but so so good uh john woods has an interesting comment he says it looks like ebbis look at that beauty so it's fun i mean we could spend an hour here just looking looking for all the angles and the perspectives and onward let's have another look back towards the the toga clad ladies and the little garden as you can see the sun doesn't come through here too much at least this time of year i would assume in the summer it um when the sun's higher in the sky you probably get a little bit more light look at that that's a good view of the nymphs so most of the people you see here of course they're the residents but everybody else is just passing through which makes it such a perfect little spot to to enjoy the quiet side of the night oh there's a very interesting dog here how are you it's a race of dog that i don't [Music] recognize [Music] i want to show you this here thanks lisa for the support there i really appreciate that we've got a statue niche up here that would have had a statue originally sometimes i'm a bit sad that a lot of statues have been removed over the years but you can see there's a face so again i really like this neoclassical feel laura says i love when corey speaks with the locals thanks laura although i admit uh there were a couple of things i didn't quite understand she was telling me the name of the breed of her dog and because i'm not a dog person my feeble brain could not comprehend what she was saying but that's all right you know you just move on it's all in a day's work when you're trying to pick up a language thank you lynn for the support and thank you to david dubois so generous of you all again if you're just joining we're in the night this is called the site from 1840 post-revolution during the restoration of the bourbon monarchs which was really you know you gotta admit it was a golden age for paris it was a rebuilding time post-revolution and you had the sense of grandeur coming back and you know not everybody was for the revolution there were plenty of royalists who were supporting the bourbon family and wanted to see them come back wanted to see paris prosper again in that way for better or worse oh let's zoom in here because this is really nice margaret says those flowers against the stone buildings are gorgeous oh yeah thanks leslie t for reminding you know everybody if you could hit the thumbs up on this video i know it's kind of you know all the youtubers say that don't forget to like and subscribe and i really try to avoid being that annoying but the truth is if you do click if you click that thumbs up it'll help youtube to spread this video around just have a quick little peek through here is it gonna focus no well sorry you can you get the idea there's a little courtyard back there actually what if i zoom maybe i can trick it into do yeah well there we go see i can be clever sometimes i can figure stuff out once in a while so it's so funny you know that's so common in paris you see these beautiful buildings from the outside the facades and then you don't even realize what kind of courtyards or interior gardens they might have in addition to the the beauty that they have when they walk out their door so this this family who just left this this building that we're in front of every every morning they come out to greet the world starting with this can you imagine that let's hope they're happy john wood says that courtyard looked better blurred well take your pick john you can you can freeze frame whichever version you prefer sometimes things do look better blurred including my own face i i whenever i see myself on camera i'm thinking ugh can't they just kick it out of focus a little bit all right well maybe we'll zoom in on this on the lions here the doors yeah you just give give someone so cameron carr says if that family isn't happy in the mornings i know some freaks who would gladly take over the apartment thank you lisa chorney she says to your occasional cleverness i appreciate the the support uh so this is a the dark side of the fountain but isn't that kind of nice with the the shadow of the tree coming through i like it i'm down and i'll see your fountain in sun dappled uh trees and raise you one parisian bicycle oh thank you mike slater that's extremely generous of you thank you so much buddy you're an amazing supporter and um i appreciate you i appreciate all of you uh one last look before we move on because of course we have some other stuff to see we'll say our goodbyes to the seated travis so um perhaps google this one and pop it into your notebook next time you're in the ninth homies mall you can reach this pretty easily from the granbouleva or the the galduno area so like i said i should explain thanks john woods i appreciate you he says technology works today so to the north you've got one street that'll take you that way and then there's one street here that leaves to the south i've got some doors to show you we've got a little mini door tour to do here right here at number eight oh yeah look at that zoom in danielle says yay doorage always time for george hmm [Music] just the color of that wood delish delish and then across the way now we've definitely those of you who are long time watchers of this series you know what our best guess is as to who these two characters are someone i'll let someone pop it into the comments when he's smartypants who's been paying attention we've got a man and a woman's head here elizabeth diamond's here hey chiptude well it's great to have you here buddy margaret says please tell us the story again so have you heard of the old french lovers eloise and abella they've been described as the french version of romeo and juliet but it was a true story in the middle ages in paris these two star-crossed lovers who ended up getting separated and never see each other again and write beautiful letters back and forth to each other so the theory is that during this neo-renaissance period excuse me during this renaissance period they started to bring back some of those ideas and these doors the ironwork incorporated the lovers of eloise and abela that's at least one theory and they are usually in this case you'll see them facing generally toward each other so there's a whole story between these two if you don't know it you should really google it look into that story of illusion it's quite a quite a tale and a true story as far as we know they're buried in per laches or so so they say beautiful tomb look at this beauty this is number six oh yeah yes yes yes give it to me thank you to sarah who says thank you for the wonderful tours of paris i appreciate the support lin sakai says enjoy a cafe come and a sweet street hopefully we can share in person kind of soon i hope so kind of soon i really hope so oh thank you elizabeth diamond for the support as well i see y'all there i'm feeling the love thanks everybody oh it's yesenia's birthday is and jerry a little bit too happy birthday to you i switched to english at the end i don't know why we'll blame it on jerry thanks ricky for the super chat i appreciate it man these doors and then even the ones that aren't too extravagant here you can still see a lot of great ornamentation happening here again with the corinthian style capitals fits in nicely to our neo-renaissance theme today this is an old gate that i would assume would would be part of a a grand estate or a a wealthy home but it's a little run down now it seems like they're doing some work and it's clearly been broken up into apartments but what's nice is they've got these two little half i don't even know the correct term for it but it's sort of like a vase half one there and i'll show you the other one on the other end right there [Music] so this whole area is called the site i want to show you the iron this is a thai restaurant as you can see but it's worth zooming in on the ironwork maybe even more remember if you've got a decent connection where you're watching this consider in the settings setting setting this to 1080p resolution camera cameron car says if that's if that gate is run down please don't look at my neighborhood in toronto yeah i guess rundown is a relative term oh sorry before i forget this will be on control it'll be backlit but hopefully you can still make out this just some lovely lovely corbel work there remember this great debate that we had of whether those things under the balconies are called corbels or consoles after a little bit more research um i'm more convinced that the corbel is the correct word consoles sometimes they're used furniture and other decorative elements but when they're embedded in a wall like that as part of the structure uh quite often they'd be called corbels for anybody who cares at all about that so as you can see we're on the the and this is subtle this is small but i just thought we'd meditate on that and this clearly they're doing some renovations and whatnot but i wanted to show you that the the archway that leads into that courtyard is lovely yeah yes anya it is a very beautiful day in paris we've had some beautiful sunny days by the way i could have almost gotten away with calling this and always look up to her as you as you've noticed we've seen a a lot of details up above our heads today these are some hotel lamps that are not historic they're fairly modern but i still love the perspective of them yeah yeah yeah oh and the reflection we get a twofer deal here nice always look for the reflection that's that's rule number two after always look up so nice so nice now we've got a modern awning over there another decorative building i don't know if it's perhaps from the roughly the same period but hopefully you can make out we got some beautiful lions there let me zoom in some lions with their their paws are tied they're taxidermied lions so to speak with their paws tied in a knot almost like a scarf under their heads and i've seen that before and then those we can see those heads that are pretty classic mascara style heads similar to what you might see on the ponder for example but one thing that i do want to point out is let me get out of traffic hopefully you can make out on your screens that this guy's winking this is the only winking mascara on this building hey janet she's asking where i am i'm in the ninth we're in the ninth house getting a good shoulder workout today i'm happy about that as you can see this is a pharmacy note and all of that beauty reps all the way around the corner there sometimes the balconies are super tiny but they're still it's enough you know it's good enough we wouldn't complain right uh let me take us down this way there's another quiet little square that runs parallel to the one that we were just in as you can see by the way it is not a ton to come to paris and enjoy the storefronts that is not not one of paris strong points at this time at this moment in time it will be one day leslie confirms yes that balcony is enough for her now i want to show there's a um there's a synagogue here and i don't want to film the gentleman in front of it but it's called the synagogue and you can notice you can see it's very very austere and very stark there's zero ornamentation but it makes sense when you uh realize that it was built just after world war ii in the holocaust so it's very very just straight up concrete and there are the doors don't want to bother the church-goers outside but i thought that was interesting um very very discreet very somber which is very indicative very common of that period just following the war everything was meant to make you feel sort of uneasy there wasn't any decoration or embellishment in those buildings or those memorials here's a door worth noting and i'll tell you where we are in a minute oh yeah i see some of you in the comments are talking about the graffiti yeah it's never particularly fun to look at um but those are that's just the protection at night and during the day they roll up those metal curtains and you know you don't see it at all so hopefully you can hear it's again gotten rather quiet sorry this is an l-shaped street called the rue ambroise toma like ambras thomas i don't know why i anglicized it omraaz tomah and this right here to me i don't have confirmation of this but it seems like it would have been a fountain you can see the mascara at the top and then this is all grown in but this to me screams former wall fountain or well where you would get fresh water uh that's nice there we've got a couple of these on the corners let me zoom in and then look at the balcony that wraps all the way around i love that and another one up top too check this out shoulder workout man it's just so so delicious all these views and then you've got a similar thing on the opposite side let me show you so i'll just give you the lay of the land here of the amwas so we came from there and it's just it's an l-shaped street so that is how we're gonna exit thanks terry lightfoot appreciate the support zoom out here perfect sunlight today right man terry says woohoo i figured out the super chats i'm so glad you did terry believe me i am glad speaking of reflections is this gonna come through on the screen yeah that's pretty nice that's quite nice put the get the perspective right yes put it in the center of the screen cory you dope love it thank you mark i see the support there i appreciate you so this is all reflection what is actually inside here by the way barely gonna see anything it's a staircase people that's all you need to know particularly on a sunday you can come here and get absolute tranquility thank you nancy brisson she sends me a little you are amazing emoji i appreciate that nancy i appreciate you wonderful ooh so for a little bit of dreaming can you make out that there's a nice nice big sunlit room there with plants almost like some sort of studio space oh so good all right onward we're gonna go i've got a few more things to show you here thank you kristen she says thank you for persevering corey loving the tour today thank you i appreciate you kristin or kirsten sorry i always make that mistake i do it out of love kristen i do it out of love so you can see the backside of this beautiful sign giving us the name of the street and of course i'll show you the front of it yes that's that's how you enter a street right there oh gorgeous thanks kate so much for the support i appreciate it wow wow [Music] 1897 is what that text tells us awesome so now this brings us on to the i think this is the border of the 10th holy small so technically we could say we've changed districts but it's pretty much the knife this is fun for any of you art history fans the painter kohu who i'm a huge fan of born in paris july of 1796 he died in this house in 1875. thanks elijah or alicia so nice to be back with you corey that's what she says so caro died in this very building if you're not familiar with his work definitely check out um his wikipedia page for starters and then go from there really i'm not a snob when it comes to research i'll start with the wikipedia and then i'll just start clicking links [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] [Music] ah this lady was telling me a little bit about artists who lived in this area she mentioned the composer bize who i mentioned in one of our episodes and then offenbach as well and then i gave her at the end i gave her a fun fact about this building here that i'm going to share with you and she's like oh yeah i already knew that so it's really cool when the some of the the residents know about the history of their neighborhood sometimes maybe we assume they don't but i always like and those are the people the people who know are the people who just randomly stop me on the street when i'm doing these things and they are more than happy even without me looking at them or asking them anything they are more than happy to share their knowledge is a former um called the hotel and it's from 1776 so birth year of the good old usa now this is a straight up like ebenezer scrooge christmas carol type knocker isn't it you know what i'm going against my better judgment here and i'm going to show you some doors that aren't aren't amazing but they just call to me in some way and there's even some construction in front but i want to just show you that these are beautiful in a different kind of way they're subtle but i like them it's been a while since i funneled anything on camera and i like call me crazy but i actually like this red temporary red um bumper because of the complementary colors hopefully you find that interesting another grand facade here immigrant facade so soon we'll burn without a noise without my pride i reach out from the inside again i can't sing with these masks i apologize in your eyes the light the heat in your eyes feeling your hair i see the doorway a thousand churches the resolution of all the fruitless searches oh i see the light in the heat okay i'll stop [Music] so you get the idea there are a lot of doors here and i want to share one more thing for you before we switch to the tour extension for the freeze on facebook i'll get so lost sometimes days pass and this emptiness fills my heart that is one by the way technically one of the best songs ever ever ever in your eyes by peter gabriel check it out okay so this last building here we are on the corner of the street let me back up a little bit lisa says keep going lisa always wants me to keep singing because she's the singer herself so this corner building here where the previous building once was here at this spot was the um the building of a a rather infamous family known as the son family spelled s-a-m-s-o-n and the so-so family was a long line of executioners notably guillotine executioners during the revolution and um just like generation after generation it was handed down from father to son and so in the previous building that was on this corner starting in the early 1700s you had the samsung family and in this very spot or in this previous building a baby was born called charles who is the guy who would grow up to execute not only louis the 16th at placella concorde via guillotine but also don tong and charlotte caldey if you know if you're familiar with that story when she murdered maha in the bathtub so the building that once stood on this corner is where that family lived for many many years during that apparently when this gentleman shall angry when he executed louis xvi he was not particularly happy to do it it was he was just sort of doing his job and it was kind of left a bad taste in his mouth so to speak so much so that i understand it was his last execution that he ever took part in and he delegated to his assistants the following guillotine beheadings that had to be done because imagine that imagine being the guy who not only you chopping off heads all the time sometimes probably dozens per day not to get too gruesome about it how do you even sleep at night and then when you're asked to actually kill the king in front of throngs of screaming people that's got to mess with your head a little bit now originally this street right here to add to that story in a way you could say was called the ghrudan fair for many many years or the street of hell the rudolf and it it was meant to to match up with this street right here which is called the the pahadi or the the street of paradise so that was clearly set up intentionally where the city planners pre-revolution had this street here called hell street and it would meet heaven street and make its way there so this is still called the ruda paradis heaven street but they changed the name of hell street because well because the residents eventually got tired of it beautiful sky today my goodness so when they changed the name from hell street they needed to change it to something else and they changed it to rue blue or blue street and i read preparing for this episode i came across a very interesting story i hope it's true that one of the king's um the or no the duke dorian you know the guy who built the palais gardens and the arcades and whatnot he was a cousin to louis the 16th during the revolution for example the duke d'orlean had a mistress in this area who lived here and apparently she had beautiful blue eyes and so because he had the power to change the name of the street he told her honey because i'm such a fan of your beautiful blue eyes i'm going to call this street in your neighborhood i'm going to call it blue street and i hope that anecdote is true because i like it it's very romantic although i guess if you want to be more of a cynic you could say it wasn't a romantic story for the poor guy's wife i think he was married at the time you know there's always a dark side to everything if you dig enough into history you're always going to find something that's not so pleasant just as a quick note we are actually now at the northern end of exactly where we started this will lead you to the site detrevies you can actually see a little bit of the the trees there where the fountain is so we've come around full circle here we just made a little don't loop to see so much pain so much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away when i want to run away i drive off in my car but whichever [Music] i'll come back to the place where you are speaking of corbels look at this cute little one right there with this little shadow look at you with your little shadow that is a very modest decoration above a door but i love it oh i didn't know that yesenia are you talking about the same song she said it was covered as a duet i have no idea what this is but we're gonna see there we go okay kenny says corey your singing is great you should put out an album you know what i should put out a novelty album where it's just me trying to sing through a mask while i'm walking down the street uh this is i just feel like sharing everything remember i told you that the site de trevis was named after the dicta trevis because he lived nearby in a mansion well we can't see it here but at the end of this alleyway just around to the right is his former home the hotel particularly where the duke would have lived and today it is still a very fancy building but i think it's used by you know like communication agencies and various organizations use it as office space this door was open the other day when i was researching this episode and i was lucky enough to get back there towards the gate and get a view of the of the mansion and i took some fun photos there but alas it's not open today or is it no it's not sorry this is a post office today but it used to be a much older version of a post office so let me show you the some great mosaics here left over for those days and then i don't know why this always tickles me but telegraphs love that i love reminders i love to have a reminder is that you used to have to go and send a telegraph that's so cool reminds me of downton abbey remember that opening scene of downton abbey when they're getting the titanic news spoiler alert in case you didn't know the titanic sink so this is nice too look we have these four niches with statues can i zoom more oh yes i can zoom more you can always do more look at that now you got again you gotta always look up because it's so easy to miss these i miss them several times walking through here lori says hit that like button like and subscribe everybody share with your friends it is true click that little thumb it doesn't cost anything and it'll help youtube spread the word okay we're going to finish up i'm just going to throw you a quick glance of the scua montolo which actually they once found an entire see this beautiful square surrounded by this architecture here that's a park they um once found an entire woolly mammoth skeleton underground here i really like this place again where we're just a few minutes from the galduno but we're deep enough deep enough into the 9th and 10th among these ones that you can still find a very residential feeling although there happens to be you know pretty busy boulevard as you can see but that's the squall montenum and i think we'll end with that view i want to thank you all for joining me thank you for understanding when i have technical difficulties and i have to cancel i don't like to do it i only do it when i have to but i'm glad that we could make this work today now if you are a patreon supporter and you're in our facebook group we're going to pop over there in about 10 minutes give me 10 minutes this time go use the restroom grab yourself a beverage because i got to go unlock my bike and i think what we'll do as a tour extension today uh we'll i'll just ride my bike around and we'll enjoy some of this beautiful sunlight in the ninth avenue small so if that sounds good to you i will meet you all over there for a private extension of this and i want to thank you so much for the super chats and the support and the understanding and for those who defend my honor online when you deem it necessary i'm really touched by all of that you are all absolutely wonderful i'm lucky to have you and i know you um you have options of of what to watch when you want your paris fix and i'm very glad that you came over my way today i appreciate that it does not go unnoticed oh yeah i see we got 158 likes on this video well done folks well done okay everybody in about 10 minutes meet me over in our cafe chats group on facebook and um i'll just tool us around on the on the old bike and we'll see what we can find thanks everybody i will catch you on the next episode if you can't bring yourself to paris and i know you can't i will keep bringing it to you as best i can have a lovely rest of your day take care of each other and take care of yourselves and i'll catch you on episode 113 bye

Channel: A French Frye in Paris

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