Passage Saint-Guillaume (vers la rue Richelieu) (first arrondissement)
1863-1865.
The intersection of Rue-Grande Saint-Martin, the perpindicular street in this photograph,
and Rue-Grande Saint-Honore, the horizontal street here,
was the Times Square of Medieval Paris, the largest city in the world.
Another photgraph of Rue Saint-Honore
Overcrowded, noisy, dangerous, pestilential, and achingly beautiful: that was Medieval Paris.
