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Lining the symmetrical square stand 36 matching houses of immaculate white stone and red brick, capped with steep slate roofs pierced by dormer win- dows. On the ground level beyond arcades are cafes, art galleries and smart shops like Issey Miyake. This is the Marais in Paris. Nearby, bearded, black-hatted men hasten to synagogue services. Young women, their sheitels often askew, shout at passels of children trying to dodge into the narrow street. Motor scooters whiz by. Smells of cumin and cinnamon, characteristic of African cookery, waft through the air to those trodding the narrow sidewalks. This, too, is the Marais. The hottest arrondissement (dis- trict) in Paris is a study of contrasts... The Marais is the scene of Parisian Jewry's most colorful neighborhood, with its hurly-burly feel, as well as a quietly graceful park and additional artful attractions. It offers as many faces as a French coquette, and has become a center for the avant-garde and fashionable. The Place des Voges, Paris's oldest square, provides an urbane architec- tural example of serenity that ele- vated this formerly ugly, swampy section. The area as it exists today dates from the 17th and 18th cen- turies, but was only restored begin- ning in the 1960s. Apartments rent for about $3,000 [U.S.] per month. Sidewalks are often filled with equipment for filming TV stars for soap operas. The houses have facades on the square, but behind each are layers of liveabili- ty: a private garden, then the dwelling, another cobblestoned courtyar, another facade and finally the parallel street. The courtyard of the Hotel de Sully [hotel means man- sion] (62 Rue St-Antoine), built in 1625, is particular- ly lovely; its owner sold it to Sully, Henri IV's former financial minis- ter, to cover his gam- bling debts. Decorations over the windows are typi- N cally Renaissance in style, with shells and fruits as subjects, and allegories of spring and winter. Concerts are some- times held here. In another house (#6), the modest Victor Hugo Museum in the building where the poet lived includes original furnishings and book manuscripts. He wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame here. The Temple des Voges, at #14, hosts a small congregation upstairs, where men are separated from women. A barely discernible door around the corner from the Place des Voges leads to the Rue de Turnelle syna- gogue (#21), which hosts about 500 for Shabbat services. It's renowned for its interior iron work, which is past its prime; visitors overlook the smells of the cooking from the shamus's [bea- dle's] quarters. Most of Paris's 350,000 Jews do not live in the Pletzel, said Yves Camus, director of public relations for the Consistoire de Paris [an umbrella organization that Camus said is equiv- alent to the Union of Orthodox Con- gregations]. They reside mostly in western Paris in the fashionable 16th district; the strictly religious, with many children and lower income, live in the 19th and 20th districts. Nevertheless, the Pletzel, site of the 13th-century ghetto, consistently lures Jewish visitors. There's an exot- ic atmosphere, since North African Orthodox Jews are highly visible here. The area around the Rue de Rossiers harbors a warren of kosher restaurants; about 85 percent are North African, reflecting the large Jewish emigration since 1954 from Morocco and Egypt. ' Others arrived after Israel's Six Day War, not necessarily because they were persecuted, Camus said, but because they were uncomfort- able in Muslim countries and wanted a better life. Today the area is home to 200 Orthodox families. (Camus said there are no problems between blacks and Jews or Arabs and Jews. As for anti-Semitism, he said peo- ple aren't the targets of attacks, but you feel it's there; the right-wing party polls 14 percent of the vote, while in Germany it gets only 6 percent. And about five anti-Semitic bookstores exist in Paris.) Above the nar- row, crooked street with