Covered passages of Paris

The Covered Passage of Paris (French: Passages couverts de Paris) are an early form of shopping arcade built in Paris, France primarily during the first half of the 19th century. By the 1850s there were approximately 150 covered passages in Paris but this decreased greatly as a result of Haussmann's renovation of Paris. Only a couple of dozen passages remain in the 21st century, all on the Right Bank.^[1] The common characteristics of the covered passages are that they are: pedestrianised; glass-ceilings; artificially illuminated at night (initially with gas lamps); privately owned; highly ornamented and decorated; lined with small shops on the ground floor; connecting two streets. Originally, to keep the passages clean, each would have an artiste de décrottage (a shit-removal artist) at the entrance to clean the shoes of visitors.

The passages were the subject of Walter Benjamin's incomplete magnum-opus Passagenwerk (Arcades Project) which was posthumously published.

List of currently accessible passages[]

The following table lists the covered passages that still exist and remain accessible to the public.

Arrondissement	Name	Date	Entrance	Hours	Heritage listing	Length	Image
1		1820	6 rue de Beaujolais 5 rue des Petits-Champs		Mérimée	33m
1	Galerie Véro-Dodat	1826	19 2	Monday-Saturday (except public holidays) 0700-2200	Mérimée	80m
2		1826	9-11 8	Closed to the public	Mérimée	90m
2		1828	120 rue Saint-Denis 3	Monday-Saturday 0700-1900	Mérimée	47m
2	Passage du Caire	1798	33 2 237-239 rue Saint-Denis 14, 34 et 44	Monday-Friday 0700-1800		360m
2	Passage Choiseul	1829	40 rue des Petits-Champs 23 40		Mérimée	190m
2		1826	6 rue des Petits-Champs 2		Mérimée	83m
2		1825	145 rue Saint-Denis 10	Monday-Saturday 0800 - 2000	Mérimée	117m
2	Passage des Panoramas	1800	10 11 boulevard Montmartre 38 151 rue Montmartre	0600-2400	Mérimée	133m
2		1826	119 boulevard de Sébastopol 212 rue Saint-Denis	Monday-Friday 8-9		92m
2		1860	5 boulevard des Italiens 97-99 rue de Richelieu	Monday-Saturday 0800 - 2000	Mérimée	80m
2		1829	59-61 Passage Choiseul		Mérimée	47m
2	Galerie Vivienne	1823	4 rue des Petits-Champs 6 5	0800 - 2000	Mérimée	176m
3		1791	82 157, 159, 161		Mérimée	46m
3		1827	16 3 place de la République	Monday-Friday 0700 - 2000 Saturday 0800 - 2000	Mérimée	57m
6		1776	59 21 130 boulevard Saint-Germain		Mérimée	120m
8		1745	24 24		Mérimée	95m
8		1926	76-78 avenue des Champs-Élysées 59			120m
8		1845	9 place de la Madeleine 30	Monday-Saturday (except public holidays) 0800-1900	Mérimée	53m
8		1839	33 28	Monday-Friday 0700 - 2400		29m
9	Passage du Havre	1845	69 rue de Caumartin 109			115m
9	Passage Jouffroy	1845	10-12 boulevard Montmartre 9	0700 - 2100	Mérimée	140m
9		1847	6 31 bis	Monday-Friday 0700 - 2100 Saturday-Sunday 0700 - 2000	Mérimée	75m
10	Passage Brady	1828	43 22 boulevard de Strasbourg 33 boulevard de Strasbourg (covered section) 46 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis		Mérimée	216m
10		1830	16 16 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis	0900 - 1900		120m

References[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Covered passages of Paris.

External links[]

• "Paris's top 10 hidden shopping passages". The Guardian.
• "Le charme parisien des passages couverts". ParisInfo (in French).

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