Vivienne gallery

The gallery Vivienne is a Passage 2nd district of Paris.

Cut length 176 m - width 3 m

The frontages of the buildings are 4, rue des Petits Champs, 5-7, rue de la Banque, 6, rue Vivienne

It is built in 1823 by the president of the Room of the Marchoux Notaries, with the site of the Vanel hotels of Tightening and the passage of the Small-Fathers, according to the plans drawn by the architect François Jean Delannoy. This last designs a neo-classic decoration of style pompéien covered with an elegant canopy, made mosaics, paintings and sculptures exciting the trade. Work of restoration makes it possible to rehabilitate the caduceus, anchors and flowering ashes of abundance which decorate the windows in half-moons as well as the goddesses and the nymphs which decorate the rotunda. The mosaics of the ground are signed G. Faccina. Large the 42 m length gallery is followed of a rotunda glazed with a cupola out of hemispherical glass, the whole being of origin, the squares allowing a modulated ventilation.

Inaugurated in 1826 under the name of Marchoux, then quickly baptized Vivienne, this gallery benefits from its exceptional site. It attracts good number of visitors with its shops of tailor, bootmaker, merchant of wine, restorer, bookseller, draper, confectioner, merchant of prints…

Located between the Palais Royal, declining, the Stock Exchange and the Grands Boulevards, this passage is a considerable success until the end of the Second Empire. But the gallery loses a little its attraction with the removal of the prestigious trade towards the Madeleine and the Fields-Élysées and in particular because of the Revolution haussmannienne. No other is placed better that him to be an extreme hearth of circulation and activity. The monumental staircase of the number 13 conduit to the old residence of Vidocq after its disgrace. This convict had become chief of a brigade of trained police force of former criminals. Vivienne resists at the beginning of the Duke of Orleans, become Louis-Philippe, for Tileries. It should be noted historical competition with the Colbert gallery being in the vicinity. Since 1960, the gallery is become again very active. It presents shops of mode and of decoration, processions of haute couture are held to with it. The installation of Jean-Paul Gaultier and Yuki Torii in 1986 allowed the resurrection of the gallery. This one lodges today many shops of ready-made clothes and decorative objects.

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