Cour du Faubourg Saint-Antoine

In the 17th century, many craftsmen, including cabinetmakers and engravers, settled in the then Parisian suburb of Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which had grown up around the abbey of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs. The suburb extended from the Saint-Antoine gate to the abbey of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs and from there to the Château de Vincennes. Today, the former suburb is located in the areas of the 11th and 12th Paris arrondissements and remains an important location for furniture stores, carpentry workshops, as well as professional associations of the furniture industry.

Cour du Faubourg Saint Antoine, Paris, color photograph, 2015, photographer: Jean-François Gornet; source: Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cour_du_faubourg_Saint_Antoine,_Paris_February_2015.jpg, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en.