Quai de Conti, Riverfront passage in 6th arrondissement, France
Quai de Conti is a riverside walkway that runs along the Seine, connecting two main street intersections. Buildings line the path on one side while the river opens to the other, creating a natural flow through the neighborhood.
The quay began as a riverfront passage in the 17th century and changed names several times before its current designation. A major restructuring in the 19th century expanded the space to improve how people and goods could move along this section.
The quay takes its name from the Hôtel de Conti, whose main entrance stood here until the Hôtel des Monnaies was built on its site from 1771. In Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Madame Verdurin's salon is located on the quai de Conti. Two plaques on the Institut de France facade facing the quay mark the site of the former Tour de Nesle.
The quay runs one-way east to west, from 2 rue Dauphine to place de l'Institut, and is served by RATP bus lines 24, 27, 58 and 70. The walkway is paved with small grey and brown cobblestones; a low stone edge above the water borders the river side, while a stone wall lines the inland side. Boats are moored along the right edge, and trees with yellow foliage stand on the left.
Two plaques on the facade facing the quay mark where the Tour de Nesle once stood, at the east wing of the Institut de France. At No. 15, Patrick Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, spent his childhood; his parents took over the flat from Maurice Sachs in the early 1940s.
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