Passage Choiseul

The Passage de Choiseul is a covered shopping arcade with a glass roof from the first half of the 19th century in the 2nd arrondissement in Paris. The Passage de Choiseul is worth protecting Monument ( monument historique ).

Location

The Passage de Choiseul is located between 36, rue des Petits -Champs and 23, rue Saint -Augustin, in a mixed residential and commercial area, close to the old National Library and the Grands Boulevards. Quatre Septembre is the nearest metro station of Line 3

Other passages are in their vicinity: Galerie Vivienne (2nd Arrondissement ), Passage Bourg l'Abbé - ( 2nd arrondissement ) and Passage du Grand -Cerf ( 2nd arrondissement ).

History

The Passage de Choiseul with a length of 200 meters in 1827 designed by architect Antoine Tavernier, who on behalf of the Bank Mallet, worked. These had bought four Hôtels particulier, which have been demolished. Only the entrance of the Hôtel de Gesvres ( 1655 by architect Antoine Le Pautre built ) has been integrated as an input to the Rue Saint -Augustin in the construction of the passage. The neighboring Théâtre des Bouffes, built in 1857, has an emergency exit for the passage. The passage is not characterized by an interesting decor.

Today's state

The construction of the large department stores at the Paris Opera and the Madeleine caused in the second half of the 19th century, the decline of the passages and also the Passage de Choiseul. After a brief flowering in the 1970s, when the fashion designer Kenzo in the passage, opened a boutique, the passage neglected more and more. A future closure is more likely than a complete renovation, because the flow of customers moving away from this rather hidden passage.