The Mystical Places of Paris

The history of Paris was very dramatic, full of stormy and sometimes bloody events. Today, in the capital of France, you can name at least a dozen places shrouded in a mystical aura.

So, on the street Moulin was once Belles Poules, and simply a brothel. According to legend, it was there in the XVII century, the famous favorite of King Louis XIV Françoise-Athenais de Montespan held black masses. At that time, the occupation of the occult and black magic, especially among the nobility, was common.

The street of the Martyrs is also considered a mystical place. Here, in house number 8, lived the famous occultist Allan Kardek (real name Leon Rival). He practiced spiritualism and arranged for his clients "communication sessions" with the souls of the dead, including celebrities. Kardek has long been dead, but fame remains.

On the street of Templ allegedly on Christmas night you can meet the ghost of an evil monk who shouts insults at passers-by. If he notices that someone out of curiosity looks into someone else’s window, he may even wring his neck. This sinister phantom is dedicated to the whole chapter of Victor Hugo’s novel “Notre Dame de Paris”.On St. Claude Street once lived the ghost of the famous magician and adventurer Giuseppe Balsamo, or Count Cagliostro. It is said that after his death he traded on this street the elixir of eternal youth. In addition, in the mansion number 1 phantom Cagliostro organized the so-called “dinners from the grave”, which gathered the spirits of celebrities – for example, Voltaire, Montesquieu and Diderot. There is a ghost on Noié Street who is called the Sage. According to legend, during his lifetime he worked as an economist in the Paris Palace of Justice and suddenly went mad. The fact of madness was witnessed by the court. Having drawn up a conclusion about the insanity of the unfortunate, he dried the paper with the help of coal. Since then, near the house where the madman lived, pieces of coal and burned logs appear from somewhere. And passers-by near the house often stumble in a flat place. On the Avenue Fronshaw stands a mansion in the Gothic style, shrouded in gloomy glory. It is said that all its inhabitants died under strange circumstances. The first was composer Victor Masse, who died of multiple sclerosis. Then there was a brutal murder of a maid - at that time the mansion was occupied by the director of the variety "Foli Berger" with his family. After the tragedy, the owners moved out, for thirty years he was empty until he was bought by the famous singer Sylvie Vartan. However, she did not live in a new place for a week and hastily went somewhere. The mansion was sold again. The last owner of the house was theater critic Mathieu Galais. Like Victor Massa, he also died of multiple sclerosis.


Many parks, gardens and squares of Paris also enjoy mystical fame. For example, in the garden of the Tuileries from time to time appears the phantom of the "Red" man. According to legend, during his lifetime he was a secret agent of Queen Catherine de’ Medici, nicknamed Jean-Givodere. His job was to destroy the Queen’s enemies. Jean usually caught his victims near the Tuileries. But the day came, and Catherine gave the order to kill Jean himself, because he knew too much about her treacherous deeds. Before his death, Jean shouted that he would soon return to the world of the living. A few days later, the royal astrologer Cosimo Ruggeri had a dream of a red man bleeding. Soon Catherine de Medici gave God his soul. Since then, the ghost of the Red Man has appeared in the garden of the Tuileries on the eve of dramatic events for France. We've seen him elsewhere. Queen Marie Antoinette observed the phantom in her room shortly before her execution. He appeared to Napoleon on the eve of the fateful Battle of Waterloo.


But where the ghost came from in the Luxembourg Garden is not entirely clear. In 1925, a strange story happened to medical student Jean Romier. He was sitting in the garden on a bench and a stranger in a frock approached him. He started a conversation and offered to go with him to visit Vojirar Street. The student agreed. It turned out to be quite fun, only Jean was slightly surprised by the old-fashioned atmosphere in the apartment and the outfits of those present, as if from the last century. On the way home, the student remembered leaving his lighter on the street. He returned, but no one opened it to him, and neighbors said that no one had lived there for decades. The young man went to the police. When the door was broken down, it turned out that everything in the apartment was covered with a thick layer of dust. On the fireplace lay Jean's lighter...

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