> “Old Paris” lies on a tract of land of considerable size reserved for it along the banks ot the Seine. It consists of streets, houses and public edifices carefully copied after their historic originals, of which time and the recent improvements in the city itself have gradually obliterated all traces. Three principal “quarteiers” or districts of Paris as it was in the past are there shown. First comes the Quartier des ficoles, with the tower of the Louvre and the odd old Church of St. Julian-of-the-Minstrels; second, the Quartier Central, where, amid all the old houses and mansions of the Renaissance, rises the Cour des Comptes, which burnt down in 1737; and third, a seventeenth-century quarter, where the Pont-aux-Changes, lined with ramshackle buildings, the prison of the Chatelet, the stairs of the Sainte-Chapelle, and the Archeveche tower are made to live again. The whole is peopled with players whose costumes have been carefully designed to suit the various classes of society of the different epochs, and they lodge in the buildings and walk about the streets and marketplaces of the old city as did the tradesmen, citizens and nobles of yore.
> *Parisian Illustrated Review, Volume 8*
Neil-Wardsays
World fairs really need to bring back the rebuilding of old or lost architecture.
ChillTuupsays
This is just great! How does it look like now at this exact spot?
apollo11341 says
God I love World’s Fair history. I’m not sure why
sverdrupian says
> “Old Paris” lies on a tract of land of considerable size reserved for it along the banks ot the Seine. It consists of streets, houses and public edifices carefully copied after their historic originals, of which time and the recent improvements in the city itself have gradually obliterated all traces. Three principal “quarteiers” or districts of Paris as it was in the past are there shown. First comes the Quartier des ficoles, with the tower of the Louvre and the odd old Church of St. Julian-of-the-Minstrels; second, the Quartier Central, where, amid all the old houses and mansions of the Renaissance, rises the Cour des Comptes, which burnt down in 1737; and third, a seventeenth-century quarter, where the Pont-aux-Changes, lined with ramshackle buildings, the prison of the Chatelet, the stairs of the Sainte-Chapelle, and the Archeveche tower are made to live again. The whole is peopled with players whose costumes have been carefully designed to suit the various classes of society of the different epochs, and they lodge in the buildings and walk about the streets and marketplaces of the old city as did the tradesmen, citizens and nobles of yore.
> *Parisian Illustrated Review, Volume 8*
Neil-Ward says
World fairs really need to bring back the rebuilding of old or lost architecture.
ChillTuup says
This is just great! How does it look like now at this exact spot?
sverdrupian says
The [Medieval Louvre](https://www.reddit.com/r/castles/comments/1od2j7/louvre_france_this_is_a_reconstruction_of_what/) the first building is patterned after.