Ancien pavillon d'octroi Nord de la barrière du Trône

You are standing before the northern pavilion of the Barrière du Trône, a building that marks the grand eastern entrance to Paris. This structure was designed in seventeen eighty-seven by the architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux as part of the Wall of the Farmers-General. That wall functioned as a massive fiscal border where tax officials collected duties on goods like wine and grain entering the city. The pavilion originally provided both offices and living space for these customs agents. While the wall itself vanished long ago, the pavilion remains, serving as a rare survivor of the fifty-four toll gates once scattered across the capital.