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The bridge Marie makes the object of a classification in conformance with historic monuments since February 10th, 1887. Constructed from 1614 till 1635. This building dates the XXVIIè century, what makes it one of the oldest bridges of Paris. Realized to follow the urbanization of the island Saint-Louis, its construction spreads out over 20 years, since 1614 until 1635. By that time, it is opened to the traffic. Fifty houses are then built on the bridge by the carpenter Claude Dublet. In 1658, the Seine in flood takes both south arcs with twenty houses which surmount them. In 1660, a wooden bridge restores the traffic. The stone construction begins only in 1677 after the intervention of Colbert. In 1769, any construction of house on bridges is forbidden.

The quay of the Louvre was formerly mentioned quay of the School. A part of the quay of the Louvre, situated on the West by the street of Amiral-de-Coligny, was gathered in 2003 in a part of the quay of the Tuileries to train the quay François-Mitterrand.

This quay took the place of the street and the holy port Bernard in 1554. There was on this quay in 1680 a trader faïencier Antoine Pierre Mazois with his wife Elisabeth Jacques. Already widow in 1768, she had to undergo a fire between February 18th, 1768 and 20.

Originally, the quay Voltaire was only the western part of the quay Malaquais. We gave him the name of quay of Théatins after a monastery of théatins had become established there in 1644 by buying, thanks to the generosity of cardinal Jules Mazarin, a house which can shelter approximately twenty five members of a religious order in the location of the current no 23 and no 25 quay Voltaire. The convent was defused in 1790 and demolished in 1822. In 1595 Guillaumede Varic installed a tilery there. In 1791, the quay took the name of quay Voltaire in homage to the writer who died in 1778 in the hotel of the marquess of Villette there.Since Balzac, who places antique dealer's mysterious shop of La Peau de chagrin, the quay Voltaire shelters numerous antique dealers, today rather specialized in the upper upscale segment. In the beginning of the XIXth century, the first secondhand booksellers of Paris make it their appearance.