Passage Jouffroy
The Passage Jouffroy is a covered shopping arcade with a glass roof in the middle of the 19th century in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.
Location
The Passage Jouffroy is located between 9, rue de la Grange Batelière and 10, Boulevard Montmartre, in a mixed residential and business district of the Grands Boulevards. Grands Boulevards is the nearest metro station of Line 8 and 9 are located in this district, a short distance from each other, most surviving passages of Paris: Passage Verdeau (9th Arrondissement ), Passage des Panoramas (9th Arrondissement ), Passage Brady ( 10. arrondissement), passage du Prado ( 10th arrondissement ) and passage du Caire ( 2nd arrondissement ).
The Passage Jouffroy can be described as an extension of the Passage des Panoramas, and they will continue through the passage Verdeau, because you leave the passage, crossed a street and immediately enter the next passage. Thus, these three passages rows one behind the other and the idea of the 19th century, to put the stroller in a specially created environment in a particular mood, is still alive.
History
The Passage Jouffroy, named after one of the builders who had built together with other Verdeau the passage, opened in 1847. The Passage, designed by the architect François Destailleur et Romain de Bourges, had to adapt to the difficult land, so that the first part seen from the Grands Boulevards of ends at a staircase and the passage continues transferred to five descending stages. This part of the passage is narrower and shorter.
The Passage Jouffroy was the first passage, which was built entirely of steel and glass. Only the decorative elements are made of wood and the floor heating was a novelty. Since its renovation in 1987, she has regained its old charm.
Grevin Museum
In 1882 was right next to the Passage Jouffroy, the Grevin Museum, named after the famous in his time cartoonist Alfred Grevin opened. The output of the museum is located in the passage, so that the visitors must remain on the path of passage.