Tour Jean sans peur

[luckyluc]

I was wondering if anyone visited the Tour on rue Etienne Marcel?

Since the entrance price is only 5 Euros I guess there is no harm in trying,

The website also mention a guide tour around the Tower with a visit of Notre Dame de Bonne Nouvelle + passage du Caire+ quartier Montorgueil + enceinte de Philippe Auguste. Sound like an interesting two hours of Medieval Paris.

pagesperso-orange.fr/tourjeansanspeur/

[Jody]

We were there a year or so ago. The building itself was most interesting. There was no tour when we were there and the exhibits were mainly medieval culinary posters. We did enjoy walking around the area and visiting the rue Montorgueil

[Anne]

As far as the tower itself is concerned, I would not really recommend its visit . The tower is nice architecturally but empty, no furniture or such . There are only explanatory panels in each room, and I think that those are in French only but I am not sure about it anymore .
Then there are temporary exhibits in the cellar, but the one that we saw (school in medieval times) was mostly panels too, hardly any exhibit . I really enjoyed it though, it explained a lot of things, but again I can't remember whether the panels were in English too . They say on the website that the next one (Apr-Nov) will be about health in medieval times .

[Jody]

When we were there the panels were in French only, so I only got about 1/4th of what I was trying to read.

And yes it certainly is bare!

I did have a good time tossing a ball back and forth with some little boys in the schoolyard next door!