Rosiers–Joseph Migneret Garden



The Rosiers–Joseph Migneret Garden is a green space located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris.

Location
The garden is located between the rue des Francs-Bourgeois and the rue des Rosiers in the heart of the historic quarter of Le Marais. It can be accessed either by the courtyard of the hôtel de Coulanges at 35-37, rue des Francs-Bourgeois, or by number 10, rue des Rosiers.

Origins of the name
The garden takes its name after Joseph Migneret, the director of the "École élémentaire des Hospitalières-Saint-Gervais", a boys' school located nearby. During World War II, Migneret showed active resistance by providing false papers to fleeing Jews and sheltering many of his former students, saving them from deportation and death.

Description
With a surface area of 2135 m2, the garden was born out of the merging of the private gardens of the mansions that border it: Hôtel de Coulanges, Hôtel Barbes and Hôtel d'Albret. Because of this, the garden is divided into several areas.

The first part of the garden can be accessed through the Hôtel de Coulanges, which today houses the "Maison de l'Europe de Paris"; it consists of a large rectangle of semi-shaded lawn (four birches are planted there) with a children's play area, surrounded by a curtain of wild cane. Different species are planted here: wild lilac, Mexican orange blossom, white dogwood, fescue, fountain grass and feather grass.

Despite its degraded condition, the tower remains very recognisable. Over the centuries, attached to the property of the Hôtel d'Albret, it served as a summer dining-room, and, later on, as a chapel.

The bustling rue des Rosiers can be reached through the third part of the garden, via a small covered walkway at number 10.

History
The public garden was created in 2007 and completed in 2014.

Annexes
This site is serviced by the Saint-Paul metro station.