Place de la Bastille

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The place de la Bastille appears in the Bulletin municipal as early as 1888, when a local resident, Mr Neily, petitioned for the repair of its paving, a request referred to the Administration. In 1909, Mr Edgar Mareuse recalled during the session that in 1880 the outline of the former fortress had been traced on the ground of the square using different paving stones. A notice published in 1920 recounted the site's past: Napoleon had ordered a triumphal arch to be built there in honour of his armies, aligned with the Louvre's colonnade. In 1927, finally, the Council examined, on the report of André Le Troquer, improvements to the access points and interconnections of the square's metro stations, on lines 1 and 5. Across these four decades, the archive mainly shows a square treated as ground and crossroads: the paving that gets repaired, the memory inscribed there in paving stones, the metro access points that are sought to be improved.

Account written by AI from the selected extracts of the city’s official bulletin — each extract links to the scanned page on Gallica.

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