Isle Louvier, Paris

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The Isle Louvier upstream of the "Isle Notre-Dame" (the Île Saint-Louis) in a map of 1742

The ancient Isle Louvier or Isle Louviers of Paris no longer exists in the River Seine. The island, also called the Īle aux Javiaux, was formerly sited in the river slightly upstream of the Île Saint-Louis. In 1408 the island belonged to the prévôt des marchands Nicolas de Louviers, whose name remained attached to it to the end. It was a low-lying ait in the river, used for pasturage as it was prone to flooding. The city of Paris purchased it in 1700 and let it out to timber merchants, whose supplies were floated downstream.

It was still scarcely inhabited in the map of 1742 (illustration).

A three-arched bridge, the Pont de Grammont, connecting it to Quai St-Bernard across the backwater called the bras de Grammont, was under construction in 1836, according to Galignani's New Paris Guide, but in 1847 the narrow space separating it from the Right Bank was filled in and joined to Quai Morland. During the Revolution of 1848 the new ground was temporarily used for an encampment of the army.