Quartier du Mail

The Quartier du Mail is the seventh of the eighty neighborhoods of Paris and lies in the 2nd arrondissement. It stretches between Boulevard Poissonnière to the north and Rue Etienne Marcel to the south, bordered by Rue Montmartre to the west and by Rue Poissonnière, Rue des Petits Carreaux, and Rue Montorgueil to the east. The neighborhood takes its name from paille-maille, a game that was popular under King Henry II and whose courts once stood here; Rue du Mail later grew out of them. The area gained special historical significance through the Maison Mozart on Rue du Sentier. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived here in 1778 with his mother, who died in the house, which makes the site an important place of cultural remembrance.