Berlioz in Paris
27 rue de Harlay
For a little over a year, from spring-summer 1825 to
August-early September 1826, Berlioz was forced to seek lodgings near the
western end of the
Île de la Cité, in a small room on the fifth floor of a flat at the corner of
rue de Harlay (no.27) and the Quai des
Orfèvres, very near the Pont Neuf (Memoirs ch.
11). The building is no
longer extant. The photograph below shows the present site, seen from across the
Seine; all the buildings along rue de Harlay are now modern. The engraving
below, from our own collection, shows a view of the Quai des
Orfèvres from the Pont Neuf as it was in the XIXth century [1822]; the
rue de Harlay is on the left, just off the engraving.
The corner of rue de Harlay and the Quai des Orfèvres
The Quai des
Orfèvres from the Pont Neuf,
from a XIXth century engraving
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