Today, here is the building of the gendarmerie and the palace of justice. But exactly here the first castle of the first French kings was built. Hence the French Crown begins its history. Over time, when the fortress and the palace lost their importance, the whole complex became a court building, a prison and a gendarmerie. Here Marie Antoinette was imprisoned before the execution. Here the trial of Sarah Bernhardt took place after she broke a lifetime contract with Comedie Francaise. Here was Dreifus trial. Here dancer and spy Mata Hari was accused of spying and sentenced to death.
The route begins not far from the famous opera house, runs along Richelieu Street, the garden of the royal palace, the secret square of Valois, the new bridge, the statue of Henry the fourth, the st. Shapel, the Citte, the Notre Dame de Paris, St. Louis island, the embankments and bridges and ends in Latin quarter