Rue des Lombards
the street of Lombards is a small way pedestrian of a hundred meters length in the first district of the town of Paris.
There is to the 62 of the street of Lombards (current restoring Flam' S) an underground vault in charge of history. It was built at the 13th century, by the powerful order of the Templiers, with an aim of making of it a site of swaps and. It was also used as temporary hiding-place with Ravaillac before being made stop for the assassination of Henri IV with 13 rue de la Ferronnerie, street parallel with the street of Lombards. During the revolution finally the vault would have been used as gathering place for secret masses of the clergy.
It makes it possible to join the street Convenient Sainte since the Boulevard of Sébastopol. In other words, it makes it possible to join the heart of the district of Châtelet the Markets. Just like the district where it is located, the street is extremely animated and heteroclite: one finds there also bars, bars with chicha, pubs of jazz, pubs Anglo-Saxon and clothes shops and of fast-food industry.
It accessible via the station Châtelet from the Subway of Paris (lines 1, 4, 7 and 11 and 14) and parks it the RER Châtelet - the Markets (lines has, B and D)
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