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For this new season, the Comité d'histoire de la Ville de Paris continues to offer monthly guided tours around Parcours Révolution!
In 2025 and 2026, continue discovering the emblematic Parisian sites of the French Revolution with historian Guillaume Mazeau. The tours, lasting from one to two hours depending on the route, are free, but registration is required 15 days in advance (when the registration link opens). For the Journées européennes du patrimoine - Tours on Friday, September 19 and Sunday, September 21 around the Odéon district ( more info here ) - Tours on Saturday, September 20 around the place de la Nation ( more info here ) Monthly tours throughout the year Online registration links will open 15 days before the tour date. - Saturday, October 18, 2025 at 10 a.m. (duration: 2 hours), Palais Royal district: surprising as it may seem, the Palais Royal, former residence of Anne d'Autriche, was also the crucible of the French Revolution in Paris. We will follow in the footsteps of the great days of 1789, as well as the Société des Amis des Noirs, the actress and activist Claire Lacombe, and Rose Bertin's shop, dressmaker to the queen. Registration opens October 6 - Friday, November 14, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. (duration: 1 hour), Catacombes district: place Denfert-Rochereau is a little-known site of memory of the French Revolution. In the Catacombes, many bones offer macabre testimony to it. Above ground, two pavilions bear traces of a monument that, from the summer of 1789 onward, sparked the first Parisian uprisings: the mur des Fermiers généraux. Registration opens October 31 - Saturday, December 13, 2025 at 10 a.m. (duration: 2 hours), parc Monceau district: on the site of the former folie of the duc d'Orléans, the walk will follow the traces of the old toll barriers, the parachutist Jeanne Labrosse, the cimetière des Errancis, burial place of those guillotined, as well as the château des Ternes and Madame Colson's luxury clinic. Registration opens November 28 - Wednesday, January 21, 2026 at 3 p.m. (duration: 2 hours), Concorde district: partly built with stones from the Bastille, today's pont de la Concorde bears discreet traces of the Revolution. From the great revolutionary festivals to the blood of the guillotine, including the installation of the Assemblée nationale at the palais Bourbon, we will explore the rich history of the former place de la Révolution. Registration opens January 7, 2026 - Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 3 p.m. (duration: 2 hours), Bastille district: its name is known around the world. Around the place de la Bastille, we will follow the traces of July 14, the faubourg Saint-Antoine, Beaumarchais's theater, and the discreet plaques of revolutionary laws that still cover some walls in Paris. Registration opens February 4, 2026 - Friday, March 20, 2026 at 6 p.m. (duration: 1 hour), Carnavalet district: around the musée Carnavalet, whose French Revolution collections are the richest in the world, we will evoke the traces left by this period, from the broken statue of Louis XIII to new street names and the construction of a bourgeois building in 1792. Registration opens March 6, 2026 - Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 10 a.m. (duration: 2 hours), Champs de Mars district: about it, historian Michelet wrote, "And the Revolution has as its monument... emptiness..." Yet there is plenty to see and say around the great esplanade, the setting of the famous Fête de la Fédération on July 14, 1790. The route will discuss the explosion of the Grenelle powder factory, as well as the execution of Bailly, the first mayor of Paris, and the Champ de Mars massacre. Registration opens March 27, 2026 - Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 3 p.m. (duration: 2 hours), Temple district: organized around the former enclos du Temple, the day's walk will take us past the musée des Arts et Métiers, a site of the revolutionaries' educational and scientific utopias, as well as to the portes Saint-Martin and Saint-Denis, remnants of the Ancien régime that the Revolution sought to preserve, and to the médiathèque Françoise-Sagan, on the site of the former enclos Saint-Lazare and the prison of the same name. Registration opens April 29, 2026 - Friday, June 26, 2026 at 6 p.m. (duration: 1 hour), Louvre and Tuileries district: from autumn 1789, with the forced move of the king, the Court, and the Assemblée nationale from Versailles to Paris, the Louvre and Tuileries palaces became the palaces of the Revolution. There, we will discuss the history of the Comité de salut public, the king's flight, the Jacobins club, and Robespierre's last residence. Registration opens June 12, 2026 Parcours Révolution: the website Historian Guillaume Mazeau talks to us about Parcours Révolution Rewatch the Comité d'histoire conferences on the Revolution in Paris Registration opens May 29, 2026
Price: online registration 15 days before the tour date
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