Join playwright Jean-Pierre Muller for a walk through Mouffetard, the setting for a classic French tale of love and loss.
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Duration
1 hour, 5 minutes
Description
The Latin Quarter is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Paris. It also happens to be the setting for one of France's classic love stories that dates back to the 12th century. Director, actor, and playwright Jean-Pierre Muller offers you a behind-the-scenes glimpse into how he wrote a play based on this tragic love story. Muller, voiced by Laurent Lederer, will tell the story as you walk along the very cobblestone streets the hero of the story once strolled.
Tips & Hours
• Be sure to bring water if it is a warm day.
• This detour is best taken between 9:30am - 5:30pm, Tuesday - Saturday.
Credits
Narrators
Jean-Pierre Muller Voiced by: Laurent Lederer
Head of Content
Heather Schuster
Executive Producer
Kim Kantner
Director of production in Paris
Jim Bittermann
Senior Producer
Niki Cook
Producer
Eva Tapiero
Associate Producer
Lina Agabani Push
Maggie Clarke
Editor
Connor Stock
Sound Designer
Dylan Peck
Sound Design Supervisor
Julian Kwasneski
Music Supervisor
Mikael Sandgren
Image Credits
Cover photo: Mathieu Aimard
Navigation photos: Lina Agabani Push
Call out photos:
Archival Images:
Paris and its story, by T. Okey (1904) Marché de la rue Mouffetard en 1896. Paris street market in the Rue Mouffetard in 1896. Author unknown.
Les Amours d'Héloïse et d'Abeilard (1819), oil on canvas (fragment). Jean Vignaud
Abaelard and his pupil Heloise. Edmund Leighton - Unknown - 1882 Heloise World Noted Women 1883
Lettres d'Abelard et Heloise translated by Victor Cousin 1875
Plan of Paris in 1223, the fourth of eight chronological maps of Paris from Traité de la police Nicolas de La Mare (1639–1723) Antoine Coquart (1668–1707). This image comes from Bibliothèque Gallica online with the number btv1b8593325k.
Special Thanks
TIGRE productions
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