Paris&#59; are there any of the original walls/ gates still standing?

I took a Paris Walks tour of the lower Marais, and she showed us several bits of walls. Most had been incorporated into a building, so you wouldn't realize it unless you were shown. This was in the part between the St. Paul stop and the river. Just take the tour-you'll love it.

Google Paris a Roman City to see which current areas are descended from the Roman city. Some of the old Roman building stones are incorporated into buildings still standing today. At the Sentier metro, the Rue d'Aboukir marks the inside path of a wall, while the parallel Rue du Mail and Rue de Clery are the paths outside the same wall.

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The Porte St Denis from the inner (14th century, though the gate is from the 17th) wall is still in situ at the north end of rue St-Denis. It's quite spectacular, although I should warn that the neighbourhood it's in may be slightly intimidating for the very nervous (don't wave a high-priced digital camera or smartphone around too visibly if taking photos).

On rue Clovis just east of rue Cardinal Lemoine, in the 5th arrondissement, is a fragment of the medieval wall of Phillip Augustus. Another, larger section runs south from rue Charlemagne, just south of St. Paul's Church in the 4th. I'm sure there are more.

http://www.philippe-auguste.com/uk/mur/textes/evocation.html Paris history buffs, take a look at this! "A little further on, in the courtyard of Commerce St André there is a complete tower enclosed within a shop. It can be viewed through the shop window !"