In the mid-1840s, the Passage des Panoramas was continued across the Boulevard Montmartre by the Passage Jouffroy, which runs through to the Rue de la Grange Bateliere on the north. Shortly thereafter the Passage Verdeau extended the sequence of arcades north from the Rue de la Grange Bateliere. There were cafes, hairdressers, bookstalls, and wax museums - the Musee Grevin Wax Museum is still in the Passage Jouffroy today. In the bottom right-hand corner of the 9ème arrondissement there remain two passages couverts – the Passage Verdeau and the Passage Jouffroy. Both are on the north side of the Boulevard Montmartre. Emergent Convolutes “Street,” to be understood, must be profiled against the older term “way.” With respect to their mythological natures, the two words are entirely distinct. The way brings with it the terrors of wandering, some reverberation of which must have struck the leaders of nomadic tribes. In the incalculable turnings and resolutions of the way, there is even today, for the solitary wanderer, a detectable trace of the power of ancient directives over wandering hordes. But the person who travels a street, it would seem, has no need of any waywise guiding hand. It is not in wandering that man takes to the street, but rather submitting to the monotonous, fascinating, constantly unrolling band of asphalt. The synthesis of these twin terrors, however — monotonous wandering — is represented by the labyrinth. ◊Ancient Paris, Catacombs, Demolitions, Decline of Paris◊ untappedcities/2011/08/02/passage-jouffroy/
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 19:30:23 +0000
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