From right to left: L'Étoile, Le Cygne, L'Arbre d'Or, La Rose and Le Mont Thabor. Buildings in the south-East side of the Square
Fires, of course, but also Louis XIV’s army and the French Revolutionaries destroyed many of these beautiful houses. In the 19th century, calmer times allowed them to be rebuilt, embellished and idealised by architects wishing to reconstitute the medieval square on the basis of the historical knowledge of the time.