2 quai des Célestins
Hôtel Fieubet. Two sheathed Atlanteans stand guard.
47 rue Vieille du Temple
Hôtel Amelot de Bisseuil, alias des Ambassadeurs de Hollande. Carved porch and casements. Spectacular pediment allegories. Architect Pierre Cottard. Sculptor Thomas Regnaudin. 17th century.
This street is lined with numerous private mansions, most of which date from the 17th and 18th centuries.
24 rue Vieille du temple
Two griffins share the door’s transom.
4 rue Rambuteau
Neo-Renaissance door frame. Scrolls on the lintel and doorframe. Three small busts enliven the top of the door. The lintel is framed by two projecting figures forming consoles.
17 rue Rambuteau
Two winged sirens surmount the triangular pediment of the door.
12 rue de Jouy
Carriage entrance surmounted by a mascaron depicting Hercules with the hammer appearing behind his head. Architect : Jean-François Desmaisons. 1743
51 rue Saint Louis en l’ile
Hôtel Chenizot, built during the 17th century, transformed during 18th century, as evidenced by this rocaille-style door. Two chimeras frame a male mascaron.
12 rue du renard
Syndicat de l’épicerie française: trade union of the groceries. Very elaborate doors with a touch of art nouveau in the leaves.
3 rue Aubriot
Striking porte cochère with its opening at an angle to the sidewalk. 17th century
20 quai de Béthune
Lintel adorned with a curious female mascaron with two large outstretched wings. The two consoles supporting the balcony are terminated by two small faun figures. Beautiful studded door.
26 rue de Rivoli
Musical instruments on the wings: violin and trumpet on the left, bugle on the right.
48 bis rue de Rivoli
Two sheathed Atlanteans, one old and one young, flank the door. The old man seems to be glaring at the young man. Architect A. Garriguenc. Statuary Kinsburger. 1905
76 rue de Rivoli
A woman’s bust surrounded by garlands stands out against a geometric diamond motif. The inscription on the ribbon behind the head indicates that it is of Gabrielle d’Estrée.
22 rue du Temple
Beautiful studded door.
2 rue Charles V
Mascaron depicting a smiling faun.
43 rue des Francs Bourgeois
A feminine Hercules! It is indeed a mascaron representing Hercules wearing the skin of the Nemean lion that adorns the key to this porte cochère, but a Hercules with very feminine features! Architect: Henri Rousset. 1912
Other doors of interest:
| 1 rue Saint Antoine | Woman holding a sheaf of wheat in a medallion framed by garlands of flowers and laurel branches |
| 12 rue Saint Merri | Beautiful mascaron with a man’s face, eyebrows furrowed, mouth open, very expressive. |
| 14 quai de la Mégisserie | Caryatids |
| 15 rue Charles V | Mascaron depicting a man’s face sticking out his tongue.1642 |
| 32 rue Saint Antoine | Ceramic door frame featuring a series of animals along a kind of vine: lion, stork, rabbit playing trumpet, pelican, duck, spicy pig, child dressed in antique style brandishing a key above his head. Above, in the center, a playing-card king and queen. |
| 39 rue Saint Antoine | Porte cochère flanked by two asymmetrical recessed columns. |
| 4 rue François Miron | Beautiful head of a bearded man crowned with laurel above the door. Building where François Couperin and his family lived. |
| 6 impasse Guéménée | Large carriage entrance topped with a triangular pediment decorated with a pile of objects which seem dedicated to the arts and science with busts, a world map, books… |
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