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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8330859, member: 110350"]Fascinating, and a fortuitous coincidence that someone would choose to research and write about the very same obscure Parisian street, torn down more than a century ago, where my grandfather was born in 1887.  As you can see in this copy of his birth certificate (redacted to delete the surname), he was born at No. 1 Passage St. Pierre. The house numbers aren't visible in any of the photos I've seen, but presumably the building was at the beginning of the street:  [ATTACH=full]1476671[/ATTACH] Two years earlier, when my grandfather's older sister was born, they lived at No. 8 in the Rue d'Ormesson, another street in the Marais that still exists, although I doubt that their building is still there. Here are photos of his parents, my great-grandparents, taken during the period they lived in Paris: [ATTACH=full]1476675[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1476680[/ATTACH] They were hardly prosperous, but they either had or borrowed decent clothing for these photos. Here are some more photos of Passage St. Pierre, beginning with a postcard showing the entrance to the old charnel house that had been there for centuries: [ATTACH=full]1476685[/ATTACH] A different etching of the Passage by the same artist who did the one posted in the blog: [ATTACH=full]1476686[/ATTACH] Another print by a different artist, Jules-Adolphe Chauvet, dated1865: [ATTACH=full]1476687[/ATTACH] More postcards: [ATTACH=full]1476690[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1476691[/ATTACH] The copies I've saved of a couple of the photos by Atget: [ATTACH=full]1476693[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1476695[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]

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