History – Rue Jean Jacques Rousseau

Les Halles, feeding Paris

As mentioned in earlier posts, the immediate neighborhoods still has many remains of the time when it was feeding Paris through its gargantuesque ‘Marché des Halles‘. In his unique style, Emile Zola once named this area Le ventre de Paris (the belly of Paris). As far as good food is concerned, whatever you do around…
Everything about light

Rousseau and his early friends (Diderot, d’Alambert, Voltaire, Turgot, Buffon and many others) were called the Encyclopedists, as they worked on a translation — with many aditions — of Ephraïm Chambers encyclopedia. This endeavor was part a a global intellectual and artistic movida aiming to enlight both the society and the future, and mainly driven…