Arènes de Lutèce

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Les Arènes de Lutèce

By Pierre André Thibault, 2007.

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Address: Arènes de Lutèce, 47- 49 Rue Monge, 5e arrondissement, Paris, France

Opening hours: 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. in winter, until 10:00 p.m. in summer

Entrance: Free

Métro: line 10 Cardinal Lemoine, line 7 line 10 Jussieu, line 7 Place Monge

Bus: line 47 Place Monge, lines 89, 67 Jussieu

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Based on the review of a couple of hundreds of sites, documents, and texts, treating

the topic Les Arènes de Lutèce, by amateurs, scholars, historians, researchers, and

scientists, this résumé of some tenths of lines tries to present what most probably

happened in Europe concerning this 20-century-old monument, from a time before

it was built to present days, in other words during our civilisation life-time that these

stones have witnessed. If only they could talk better!

Outside a small village to become much later part of Lutetia, on the somewhat lower slope

of an inhabited hill top, this mythic place was already a ”meeting space” or “playground”

for some sort of ”ritual activities” or “games” in ancient time.

It was located there perhaps under the early Celts or “Celtes historiques”, probably under

the Hallstatt, La Tène, Vix, and the Gauls era, that is to say long before the arrival of the

Roman Legions in 52 B.C., during the Gallic Wars.

“Commentarii de Bello Gallico” describing these wars was written by Julius Caesar

himself, and was therefore to be, through history, the matter of discussions on many

points.

Nevertheless, the future dictator of Rome came with his army in this wet region by

the Seine River at the time of the Battle of Alesia. He saw it, and he did not like it, but

he left behind him a garrison, most probably on some of the oppida around the area.

Many researchers think today that the “Montagne Sainte Geneviève”, in the middle of the

swamps of this marshy land around the Bièvre River, the Seine River, the Île de la Cité,

and the Île Saint Louis, was more likely to be one of the settlement, dwelling, habitation

places of some Parisii and Senones tribes, as well as Nanterre, Montmartre,

Les Buttes Chaumont, and other “mountains” of this complicated and then flooding

wetland with many rivers, la Marne, l’ Ourcq..., and their many affluent tributary streams,

making it difficult to invade and easy to defend.

These weaker Celtic folks pushed from East and North in the Parisis plain by other

stronger Germanic people mingled with them and made there a living success which

became attractive to the Romans themselves, until new waves of Franks, Barbarians,

Arabs, Moors, English, Germans, immigrants from everywhere... were also “magnetized”

to France and Paris.

Les Arènes de Lutèce were built there, roughly as they are now, but higher, during

the 1^st century A.D., and used during the Gallo-Roman epoch as an amphitheatre, a

Roman theatre for popular plays, and as a circus, mostly for gladiator and wild beasts

combats, and for martyrdoms, of course.

A first damage after some migrating folk intrusion, a first rebuilding during the

early Middle Ages, a part of the arena used as a graveyard, filled in, up to what

was left of it, its stones used for building the Philippe Auguste Wall about 1210 A.D.,

not to talk about the surrounding houses, enough was still left of its ground foundation

to keep its memory alive.

Its place is to be known by the end of the 17^th - beginning of the 18^th century, then

forgotten, though the neighbouring district is called Les Arènes, even today. Many

searchers have tried in decades to locate exactly the buried arena. It seemed to have

vanished mysteriously, some even saying the numerous saints who had been

executed there wanted so.

But in the 19^th century, it was discovered anew when digging for building the

Rue Monge, and when the tram company was planning to build a depot on it.

Victor Hugo and his Société des Amis des Arènes succeeded to save the remains

of the monument, and when the Couvent des Filles de Jésus-Christ, partly built

on it, was demolished, digging deeper for restoration was started, and conducted

until the end of World War I.

Today, the gladiators’ fights are mostly played by children with their footballs

and basketballs, by often elderly men with their boules for the pétanque, by

musicians with their instruments, by theatre actors with their lines, by tourists

with their cameras, now mostly digital ones or camera phones, by in loved couples

with their kisses...

The cages and passage galleries for the wild animals have been closed with grill bars

but are still there, for the fantasy and pleasure of the imaginative or photographing

tourists.

The gladiators, mostly male, but also female gladiators, and the martyrs of both sexes

(see Dirce, Blandina...) were coming in and out through the two lateral side gates used

today freely and peacefully by the visitors.

But by that time, victorious gladiators came out alive, the vanquished ones seldom

otherwise than dead, all depending on the crowd’s thumbs up, thumbs down.

(See also Vae victis).

Reading the martyrs’ stories shows that they were given no mercy. After scourging,

raping by the soldiers in the cages or through the gates, tortured, flayed, burned,

thrown to the beasts..., they leaved the arena only in small pieces!

It is still definitely the oldest “building” of Paris and one of the first larger stone

constructions in the whole France.

The Hotel des “Arènes”, agences immobilières des Arènes and de “Lutèce”,

pub de Lutèce, and many other businesses will provide you nearby with their

services for lodging, eating, drinking, and much more, so popular are still both

names.

Food markets on this side of the 5ème arrondissement will not be far walking.

Here are some sites, documents, images, videos, and activities connected through

the Internet to the name Les Arènes de Lutèce, with mention of credits, copyrights,

owners, and all legal stuff:

http://www.ardds.org/html/arenesdelutece.htm

http://paris1900.lartnouveau.com/paris05/les_arenes_de_lutece.htm

http://www.wikijournal.fr/article,435,Paris_Veme_arrondissement.html

http://zip.blogsome.com/2007/05/31/avec-les-boulistes-des-arenes-de-lutece

http://www.ac-creteil.fr/lettres/pedagogie/la/archeo_la_0506/itineraire_idf_sortie_lutece.htm

http://www.eng.cityvox.fr/sightseeing_paris/arenes-de-lutece_23931/Profil-Place

http://www.pbase.com/philway/quartier_jardin_des_plantes

http://www.hotels-paris-rive-gauche.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/17/1507-les-arenes-de-lutece-mouffetard-tournefort-paris-hotels-rive-gauche-5eme

http://www.hallucine.fr/cinema_plein_air/photos/photos-9-fr.html

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/68471/page/0/vc/1

http://www.paris-en-photos.com/photos/paris-05/paris05.php

http://web.mac.com/akaysaaus/iWeb/Site/France%202007(2).html

http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podcasts/23076

http://www.parisbalades.com/Ariane

http://www.paris-pittoresque.com/histoire/2b.htm

http://gratacombes.free.fr/rom.htm

http://www.ambafrance.nl/article.php?id_article=834

http://ecole.florence.free.fr/Sorties_scolaires/Paris0404/index.htm

http://www.v1.paris.fr/Carto/Nomenclature_maj/0406.nom.htm

http://paname.uniterre.com/17742/Paris+Antique,+d%E9couvrez+Lut%E8ce.+itin%E9raire+n%B02+pour+un+deuxi%E8me+jour+%E0+Paris..html

http://www.club-international.org/cijp/visites/visites_quartiers.htm

http://www.linternaute.com/paris/magazine/diaporama/06/visites-audio/metrophone/10.shtml

http://nezumi.dumousseau.free.fr/parisgalloromain.htm

http://www.france-hotel-guide.com/h75005arenes2.htm

http://www.ac-creteil.fr/Colleges/93/leparcaulnay/comenius/romain/chronologie/Lutece.html

http://www.lapanse.com/pages/archives_news_09_2006.html

http://www.cosmovisions.com/monuArene.htm

http://www.aquadesign.be/news/article-3207.php

http://www.paris5eme.com

http://www.insecula.com/salle/MS02428.html

http://www.aboutparis.info/1/188/arenes-de-lutece.aspx

http://www.fdn.fr/~rebours/arenes.htm

http://www.fra.cityvox.fr/visiter_paris/arenes-de-lutece_23931/Profil-Lieu

http://cinquieme.typepad.com/photos/photos5eme/arbrearenes_20060425.html

http://maps.apocalx.com/constructions-batiments-ponts/paris/186-les-arenes-de-lutece-a-paris.php

http://www.conservatoire-jardins-paysages.com/jardins.php?id=140

http://ec-24-saint-sebastien.scola.ac-paris.fr/dotclear2/index.php?2007/01/15/4-visite-des-arenes-de-lutece-et-de-l-ile-de-la-cite-11-janvier-2007-cp-genevieve

http://www.parisetudiant.com/loisirs/evenement.php?ne=12242

http://lali.toutsimplement.be/?p=965

http://mail.rcds.rye.ny.us/~barbara_marks/gauleromaine.html

http://mistral.culture.fr/saisie-jep.culture.fr:8080/jep-interro/unsite.jsp%3Fsit_cle=86595.html

http://perso.orange.fr/arenesetstades/paris-f/paris-hugo-f.html

http://www.parisbalades.com/Arrond/5/5emoderne.htm

http://actafabulanews.canalblog.com

http://pyxosledisciple.typepad.fr/photos/paris_summer_2007/dsc00110.html

http://www.unendroit.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=37

http://ornithorynque.hautetfort.com/archive/2005/04/19/le_portier_des_arenes_de_lutec.html

http://www.phan-ngoc.com/fred/paris/html/arenes2.html

http://www.annuaire-parisien.com/arenes-de-lutece,1119.html

http://www.netprof.fr/Voir-le-cours-en-video/Histoire-de-Paris/Lutece/2-Les-Arenes-de-Lutece,21,63,327,1.aspx

http://www.jedecouvrelafrance.com/f-4097.paris-arenes-de-lutece.html

http://www.arena-stadium.eu.org/Routes-et-lieux/arenes-de-Lutece.html

http://www.pidf.com/page/p-73/art_id-406/idf-PCUIDF0000000048

http://www.paris.fr/portail/Parcs/Portal.lut?page_id=104

http://www.evene.fr/culture/lieux/les-arenes-de-lutece-688.php

http://www.louis-le-grand.org/albedo/php/arenes_de_lutece/index.php

http://hebdo.nouvelobs.com/hebdo/parution/p2126/dossier/a273863-l%E2%80%99iledefrance_au_temps_des_gaulois.html

http://fleche.org/lutece

http://www.discoverfrance.net

http://perso.orange.fr/jean-francois.mangin/romains/ro_1.htm

http://perso.orange.fr/didier.marchaut/didier_index2/avant-empire.html

http://www.guerredesgaules.com/resume.htm

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=14430912

http://www.ac-creteil.fr/lettres/pedagogie/la/archeo_la_0506/itineraire_idf.htm

http://www.e-chronologie.org/france/antiquitf.php

http://www.alesiasalins.com/le%20fildesevenements.html

http://www.mediterranee-antique.info/Gaule/Girard/VV_12.htm

http://www.empereurs-romains.net/empret00the02a.htm

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronologie_de_la_Gaule_(-680/-52)

http://spqr.over-blog.com/categorie-16115.html

http://www.memo.fr/Article.asp?ID=ANT_ROM_009

http://alise.expansive.free.fr/gergovie.php

http://argoul.blog.lemonde.fr/2005/10/21/2005_10_la_cuisine_de_l

http://www.sacra-moneta.com/articles/numismatique_romaine/geographie_de_la_guerre_des_gaules.html

http://archeoblog.over-blog.com/article-5590350.html

http://www.darbois.net/articles/miracle_sebastien.htm

http://www.ac-creteil.fr/Colleges/93/leparcaulnay/eleves/iddvelum/Pages%20WEB/cirque/pour%20ou%20contre.html#les%20execution

http://www.nimausensis.com/Nimes/arenesESP/arenESP10.htm

http://www.gralon.net/tourisme/a-visiter/info-arenes-de-lutece-paris-1437.htm

http://ville.france.free.fr/paris2007/index7.php

http://www.ascan-petanque.com/article.php?sid=212&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

http://www.apartrental.com/blog/index.php?2007/04/28/83-les-arenes-de-lutece

http://www.flac-anticorrida.org/COMITES/Paris.html

http://www.itmparis.com/frontoffice/quartier-latin-etudiant-paris.r4096_l1.htm

http://www.louis-le-grand.org/albedo/php/arenes_de_lutece/arenes_depuislesgradinsagr.asp

http://pyxosledisciple.typepad.fr/photos/paris_summer_2007/arenesdelutecepanorama.html

http://www.previsite.com/virtual-tour/Paris-75/PARIS-5E-ARRONDISSEMENT-75005/Bien-dans-Paris-5-12168.htm

http://choeurarioso.free.fr/site/pages/news.php

http://www.paris-trendy.com/3_/hotel_gobelins-rue-mouffetard-pantheon.html

http://pavans.net/Journal/journal.php?mois=09&annee=2004

http://www.borduas.concordia.ca/index.php

http://www.visions-de-paris.com/visites-culture/montagne-sainte-genevieve-arenes-lutece.htm

http://lali.toutsimplement.be/?m=20070324

http://www.brassens.ru/album11_fr.htm

http://bibliographienationale.bnf.fr/Livres/M2_02.H/cadre72-1.html

http://www.aboutparis.info/1/177/palais-du-luxembourg.aspx

http://fr.leshoteliersdeparis.com/pantheon-hotel-maxim-local.html

http://france.jeditoo.com/IleDeFrance/Paris/5eme/cinquieme.html

http://dejagrand.infobebes.com/htm/sorties/sortie_fiche.asp?id_sortie=1188

http://www.pariserve.tm.fr/quartier/jardin-des-plantes/arene-de-lutece.htm

http://www.viafrance.com/evenements/promenade-au-square-des-arenes-de-lutece-285328.aspx

http://www.boulistenaute.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?cid=90&lid=327

http://www.petanque.org

http://www.chroniques-nomades.org/05ardt/05ardt011.htm

http://www.mairie5.paris.fr/mairie5/jsp/site/Portal.jsp?page_id=79

http://www.arenesdelutece.com

http://www.peplums.info/pep10.htm

http://81.255.61.186/BCDI3web/Bcdi3web.dll?eq:%20Descripteurs%20=~gladiateur

http://www.ruevisconti.com/Histoire/lotissementdesmarais/Histoire_cartes.html

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