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Postcards: Galeries of rue Vivienne (FR)

A couples more passages couverts can be found on rue Vivienne: one aptly named Galerie Vivienne, and the other called Galerie Colbert. Traditionally rivals but today each with its own activities, the former is a bustling passage with cafés, bookshops, print-sellers and hidden apartments while the latter housing university departments and administrative offices which inevitably also means security presence at the entrances that dissuade most that it’s a passage no longer open to public.

Galeries of rue Vivienne

Galeries of rue Vivienne

Galeries of rue Vivienne

Galeries of rue Vivienne

Galeries of rue Vivienne

Galeries of rue Vivienne

Galeries of rue Vivienne

Galeries of rue Vivienne

Galeries of rue Vivienne

Galeries of rue Vivienne

Galeries of rue Vivienne

Galeries of rue Vivienne

I always nip over to these passages if I am in the area – most likely because I have a dinner date at one of the many Japanese restaurants around rue Ste Anne and rue des Petits-Champs – and ponder what the apartments hidden behind the few mysterious doors in between the shops of Galerie Vivienne are like. It’s a tough question – I don’t know anyone who lives there, and I have never manage to catch an occasion where someone is coming out and I could slip in the door behind him/her. One day, maybe. One day…



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