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Histoire de Paris

Impasse des Arbalétriers
Cette étroite venelle s’ouvre entre deux hôtels du début XVIle siècle. Au Moyen Age elle menait à la fois à l’ancien hôtel Barbette et au terrain d’exercice des arbalétriers, au pied de la muraille de Philippe-Auguste. Deux corps de logis en encorbellement (vers 1620) subsistent de part et d’autre dans la ruelle. Dans ces parages, Jean-sans-Peur, duc de Bourgogne, fit assassiner par des spadassins, le 23 novembre 1407, son cousin Louis, duc d’Orléans, frère de Charles VI, qui venait de rendre visite à la reine Isabeau de Bavière à l’hôtel Barbette. Ce fut le prélude à la guerre civile entre les Armagnacs et les Bourguignons.

[Illustration of the alley]

One of the series of signs describing historical places in Paris. The signs were placed starting in 1992 and are also called sucettes Starck (Starck’s Lollipops) after Philippe Starck who designed them.

The sign is at the entrance to a dead end road where Louis I, Duke of Orléans was murdered by the men of Jean I, Duke of Burgundy (John the Fearless).

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Translation of the text on the sign:

[An illustration of a ship, symbolizing the symbol of Paris]

History of Paris

Impasse des Arbalétriers
This narrow alley opens between two hotels from the early 16th century. In the Middle Ages it led both to the old Barbette hotel and to the crossbowmen’s training ground, at the foot of the Philippe-Auguste wall. Two corbelled main buildings (around 1620) remain on either side of the alley. In these areas, Jean-sans-Peur, Duke of Burgundy, had his cousin Louis, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI, assassinated by swordsmen, on November 23, 1407, who had just visited Queen Isabeau of Bavaria. at the Barbette Hotel. This was the prelude to the civil war between the Armagnacs and the Burgundians.

[Illustration of the alley]