TheQuai des Célestins runs along theSeine inParis'4th arrondissement. The quay, or dock, runs into the Quai Henri-IV upstream, and downstream becomes the Quai de l'Hôtel-de-Ville.
At the level of the Boulevard Henri-IV is the Square Henri-Galli, notable for the remains of one of the eight towers of theBastille prison.
2 et 2bis: Hôtel Fieubet or La Vallette, situated at the location of the royalHôtel Saint-Pol, granted in 1519 by KingFrancis I. In 1587,Raymond Phélypeaux d'Herbault built a firsthôtel particulier there. In 1676, it was acquired by the chancellor of QueenMaría Teresa of Spain, Gaspard Fieubet. Fieubet had it renovated and decorated by Le Sueur and Vicotte according to the plans ofJules Hardouin-Mansart. In 1816, the hôtel became asugar refinery. In 1857, the count of Lavalette acquired it and had it transformed by Jules Gros in aneo-Baroque Italo-Spanish style, especially the street-side and court-side façades. Since 1877, it has been the location of the école Massillon.[3]
32: edge of the city of Paris, location of the former Tour Barbeau destroyed at the end of the 16th century or the very beginning of the 17th.
Quai des Célestins seen from the Quai de l'Hôtel-de-Ville
, at thePont Marie etSully - Morland stations as well as theRATP bus lines678687.