The city of Paris is full of little curiosities, which can be discovered during a walk or a visit to a historical place. Among them, the mysterious cannonball, stuck in the façadeof theHôtel des archevêques de Sens since 1830, and which has never moved from its wall since. Why has it never been removed and how did it get there? According to historical sources, it would have been projected during the riots of the July Revolution, on July 28, 1830, at the heart of the Three Glorious.
And the date is easy to remember, since it is engraved in the stone of the wall, under the cannonball, as a small description of this anomaly. Its presence is astonishing in the middle of the beauty of this former private mansion, classified as a historical monument, which now houses the Forney library, and whose garden is a real little haven of peace, with free access. To see the cannonball, stand outside the entrance gate and look up!
The July Revolution was a relatively short but very important period inFrench history. It led to the fall of King Charles X and the House of Bourbon, and to the establishment of the July Monarchy, which saw Louis-Philippe crowned King of the French, for a constitutional rather than absolute monarchy, according to the 1830 charter. So we have before our eyes a vestige and a clear testimony of the riots of the time!
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Jardin de l’Hôtel de Sens, a French formal garden in Paris
In Paris fourth arrondissement, not far from the Seine riverbanks and the Pont Marie lays a magnificent French formal garden where you can have a lovely break. Here is the Jardin de l’Hôtel de Sens. [Read more]
Location
Garden of the Hôtel de Sens
7 Rue des Nonnains d'Hyères
75004 Paris 4
Access
Metro: Saint-Paul (line 1) or Sully-Morland (line 7)
Jardin de l’Hôtel de Sens, a French formal garden in Paris
