Thank you so much for researching these wonderful old houses. I will definitely keep this information in a file to take with me next year when I visit Paris in order to seek them out myself. I go to Paris every year and love finding new places to go to.
Hi,
would love to get new posts. At the moment we are based in Delhi because of my husbands’ work but as we have a house in Collioure, Pyrenées Orientales, we are quite often in France and I would love to visit some of the places you decribe in your posts.
Cheerio,
Ellen
Rosemary Kneipp
September 13th, 2013 at 12:47 pm
Hi Ellen. Thank you for commmenting. How lovely to have a house in Collioure – more sun than here most of the time! You will receive an email asking for confirmation of email subscription.
Gwendoline
September 14th, 2013 at 8:11 pm
A very interesting post and I am pleased that it was an Aussie who wrote the first article (that I personally ever saw) on the oldest houses in Paris. I lived for awhile in Hobart, in Cromwell Street, Battery Point, where it was claimed, was the oldest house in Australia, built in the very early days of 1800. Surprisingly it had large French windows. Of course most dwellings prior to then would have been wood or wattle and daub, and long since disappeared. I think the oldest house in Sydney was the Macarthur Homestead (Elizabeth Farm?) and that was falling down and totally neglected back in the 70’s. I enjoyed living in Rome for six years but when I was expecting our first child I had to accept that the tiny flat we were able to afford in the heart of Rome (3 flights of steep stairs, no lift or central heating and no laundry) was not the place for a child. Thankyou for sharing all your great experiences in France. Gwendoline from Ballarat, Australia.
Rosemary Kneipp
September 14th, 2013 at 10:02 pm
Maybe having a house that’s four hundred years old gives me a special interest in old houses! We visited Hobart last but I don’t remember the house. Our tower in Blois would have been wattle and daub and it’s still visible on the ceiling of one of the outbuildings. I’ve been to an old house in Parramatta but don’t remember the date. I know that I saw a very old house on the quayside in Sydney.
Real estate in the centre is always so expensive, isn’t it? I love Italy too and I hope we’ll manage another visit in the near future.
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I love a good pho and bun bo but what a shame that building has been so heartlessly transformed! Somehow it’s never occured to me that there aren’t any medieval building in Paris, but now I think about it it’s true you don’t see really ancient ones. Thanks for searching out these lovely houses for us Rosemary. The inscription is beautiful. Thanks for linking this to #AllAboutFrance
Rosemary Kneipp
May 8th, 2015 at 8:11 pm
Hi Phoebe, you’re very welcome. It’s a lovely area to visit.
Incredible: combining two of my dearest passion: Old Paris and Pho, how cool!
Thanks for those pics, insights and snippet of history. Definitely something we missed when we used to live in Sydney!
Rosemary Kneipp
May 8th, 2015 at 8:13 pm
I’m so glad that you found two of your dearest passions so close together!
Wow, those are stunning! I’m surprised there aren’t more given that London still has medieval bits and bobs. Thank you for sharing. #allaboutfrance
Rosemary Kneipp
May 8th, 2015 at 8:13 pm
You’d imagine with all the bombing in London that most places would have disappeared. You have to go deep into the heart of France to find mediaeval buildings these days.
I went to that post as well as the “interior of the churches” post. Those are so different from any churches I have ever seen in France! Lovely and fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
Rosemary Kneipp
May 13th, 2015 at 8:52 am
They’re amazing, aren’t they? The Norman villages should be full of them, of course, but they were all destroyed by bombs.
I love old houses – I want to know about everyone who lived there. Those walls must have such stories to tell. A very belated visit from #AllAboutFrance
Rosemary Kneipp
June 2nd, 2015 at 10:08 pm
Thank you. Our house in Blois is over 400 years old and we already get a kick out of knowing the people who lived here for the last 80 years!
Lovely post about the oldest Parisian houses. Over the years I have taken pictures of all these myself but never wrote down the addresses. Now I know where to find them. Thanks a bunch.
Rosemary Kneipp
February 1st, 2017 at 8:48 pm
You’re very welcome, Ingrid!
nick
August 17th, 2018 at 11:22 am
why is it particularly embarrassing that the historian was a woman who got the oldest building wrong?
Rosemary Kneipp
August 17th, 2018 at 11:43 am
I didn’t say “embarrassing” but a “rude shock”. In 1979, in France, having a woman prove someone wrong was a shock! Fortunately, times have changed (or I hope they have!).
Peter Hewlett
December 14th, 2019 at 1:46 am
Any wanting to see the rather stunning two houses in the 4th & 5th pics should note the street is rue Francois Miron, not Morin. Might be easier to find. Well worth a look.
Rosemary Kneipp
December 14th, 2019 at 2:08 pm
Thank you very much for pointing that out – I’ve now corrected it.
Thank you so much for researching these wonderful old houses. I will definitely keep this information in a file to take with me next year when I visit Paris in order to seek them out myself. I go to Paris every year and love finding new places to go to.
Welcome to Aussie in France, Fiona. You might like to check my posts on Fast Walking and Slow Walking e.g. http://www.aussieinfrance.com/2012/02/slow-walking-on-rue-du-louvre/ as they talk about other places in my neighbourhood.
Hi,
would love to get new posts. At the moment we are based in Delhi because of my husbands’ work but as we have a house in Collioure, Pyrenées Orientales, we are quite often in France and I would love to visit some of the places you decribe in your posts.
Cheerio,
Ellen
Hi Ellen. Thank you for commmenting. How lovely to have a house in Collioure – more sun than here most of the time! You will receive an email asking for confirmation of email subscription.
A very interesting post and I am pleased that it was an Aussie who wrote the first article (that I personally ever saw) on the oldest houses in Paris. I lived for awhile in Hobart, in Cromwell Street, Battery Point, where it was claimed, was the oldest house in Australia, built in the very early days of 1800. Surprisingly it had large French windows. Of course most dwellings prior to then would have been wood or wattle and daub, and long since disappeared. I think the oldest house in Sydney was the Macarthur Homestead (Elizabeth Farm?) and that was falling down and totally neglected back in the 70’s. I enjoyed living in Rome for six years but when I was expecting our first child I had to accept that the tiny flat we were able to afford in the heart of Rome (3 flights of steep stairs, no lift or central heating and no laundry) was not the place for a child. Thankyou for sharing all your great experiences in France. Gwendoline from Ballarat, Australia.
Maybe having a house that’s four hundred years old gives me a special interest in old houses! We visited Hobart last but I don’t remember the house. Our tower in Blois would have been wattle and daub and it’s still visible on the ceiling of one of the outbuildings. I’ve been to an old house in Parramatta but don’t remember the date. I know that I saw a very old house on the quayside in Sydney.
Real estate in the centre is always so expensive, isn’t it? I love Italy too and I hope we’ll manage another visit in the near future.
Thank you for your comment.
Hi Gwendoline,
Not sure if this is the Elizabeth Farm you remember…
http://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/elizabeth-farm
Great article, Rosemary. I’d love to see these buildings when next in Paris.
I’ve taken friends on a tour and they really enjoyed it. It was a lovely day on my own.
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I love a good pho and bun bo but what a shame that building has been so heartlessly transformed! Somehow it’s never occured to me that there aren’t any medieval building in Paris, but now I think about it it’s true you don’t see really ancient ones. Thanks for searching out these lovely houses for us Rosemary. The inscription is beautiful. Thanks for linking this to #AllAboutFrance
Hi Phoebe, you’re very welcome. It’s a lovely area to visit.
Incredible: combining two of my dearest passion: Old Paris and Pho, how cool!
Thanks for those pics, insights and snippet of history. Definitely something we missed when we used to live in Sydney!
I’m so glad that you found two of your dearest passions so close together!
Wow, those are stunning! I’m surprised there aren’t more given that London still has medieval bits and bobs. Thank you for sharing. #allaboutfrance
You’d imagine with all the bombing in London that most places would have disappeared. You have to go deep into the heart of France to find mediaeval buildings these days.
So cool!
I love old houses!
This is fascinating…I have never given much thought to the fact that there are few medieval buildings in Paris….#AllAboutFrance
We were in Aubigny recently and I was surprised to see how many are still extant. Have you seen my photos of the marvellous half-timber churches in “wet” Champagne? So many areas were bombed in France that most of the old buildings have disappeared. http://www.aussieinfrance.com/2013/01/mondays-travel-photos-wet-champagne-half-timbered-churches/
I went to that post as well as the “interior of the churches” post. Those are so different from any churches I have ever seen in France! Lovely and fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
They’re amazing, aren’t they? The Norman villages should be full of them, of course, but they were all destroyed by bombs.
I love old houses – I want to know about everyone who lived there. Those walls must have such stories to tell. A very belated visit from #AllAboutFrance
Thank you. Our house in Blois is over 400 years old and we already get a kick out of knowing the people who lived here for the last 80 years!
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Lovely post about the oldest Parisian houses. Over the years I have taken pictures of all these myself but never wrote down the addresses. Now I know where to find them. Thanks a bunch.
You’re very welcome, Ingrid!
why is it particularly embarrassing that the historian was a woman who got the oldest building wrong?
I didn’t say “embarrassing” but a “rude shock”. In 1979, in France, having a woman prove someone wrong was a shock! Fortunately, times have changed (or I hope they have!).
Any wanting to see the rather stunning two houses in the 4th & 5th pics should note the street is rue Francois Miron, not Morin. Might be easier to find. Well worth a look.
Thank you very much for pointing that out – I’ve now corrected it.