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{{Short description|Neighbourhood in Paris, France}}
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'''Sentier''' is a neighbourhood in the [[2nd arrondissement of Paris]] which has been known historically as a multicultural textile and garment manufacturing district. Since the late 1990s, it has increasingly become home to many Internet start-up companies and has acquired the nickname ''Silicon Sentier''.
==Geography==
[[File:Quartier du Sentier, Paris - OSM 2022.svg|600px|thumb|center|Sentier, Paris]]
[[File:P1000593 Paris II Rue du sentier reductwk.JPG|thumb|right|A typical street in the neighborhood, Rue du Sentier]]
The area is a rectangle of buildings bounded by rue Montmartre to the west, the [[Boulevard de Sébastopol|Boulevard de Sebastopol]] to the east, Boulevard Poissonnière and Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle to the north and by rue Reaumur in the south.
It is crossed by several roads including rue d'Aboukir, rue de Caire and Place du Caire.
==Sentier's Textile Products==
*The textile industry includes: wholesalers, [[Distribution (business)|distributors]], small [[tailor]]s and retail shops etc..
*[[Textile|Fabric]], [[clothing]], [[lingerie]], [[Shoe|footwear]], jewellery, [[fashion]], accessories, supplies, raw textile materials, linen, leather goods, luggage, [[haberdasher]]y, etc.
==From textiles to "Silicon Sentier"==
Because of its proximity to the former Paris stock exchange building (the Palais Brongniart), the [[Agence France-Presse|AFP]] and many financial companies, several operators have deployed high-speed fibre optic networks in the area.
Around this time specialized companies also opened [[Data centers|datacenters]] in the area for telephone operators, internet service providers and large companies, allowing them greater network connectivity. One of the first was the "Telehouse-1" datacenter opened by the company Telehouse Europe in 1996 on rue de Jeuneurs. Despite much larger datacenters now existing in the Parisian suburbs, Telehouse-1 is still used today by some thirty operators, including specialist services for large companies such as [[Neuf Cegetel]], Completel, Verizon and [[Orange Business Services]].
During the [[Dot Com Boom]] in the late 1990s, approximately fifty [[Startup company|startups]] settled in the Sentier area, including offices for [[Yahoo!]], Nomad, Lastminute.fr, Net2one, BuyCentral, Webcible and MandrakeSoft. The area was attractive to startups  because of its proximity to fibre optic routes and also because there were many empty spaces left over when some of the garment factories moved out. At first rents were affordable, however free spaces are now becoming rare, and rents in the neighbourhood are rising.<ref>Journal "Les Echos" from 2000.20.04, "On the Sentier district in Paris: the Net-economy in the footsteps of textile"</ref>
After the Dot-Com bubble burst (around 2000) many firms that were established in the area closed.
==Sentier in literature==
By the 19th century, Sentier was the center of the textile industry in France. Honoré de Balzac refers to it several times in ''[[Le Bal de Sceaux]]'', where Emilie de Fontaine discovers Maximilien Longueville selling fabric. It was also traditionally the area housing the headquarters of the many newspapers, as Balzac mentions in ''[[La Rabouilleuse|the Rabouilleuse]]''  where Philippe Bridau files his copy before going to dinner at the Rocher de Cancale.<ref>Furne edition, vol. VI, p. 122, 133</ref>
Dominique Manotti in ''Sombre Sentier'' (Seuil Policiers, 1995), is set against the backdrop of striking illegal Turkish workers in Sentier.
Sentier keeps the quiet loneliness of the anonymous poet in Juan Goyitsolo's "Paisajes Después de La Batalla".
American author [[Cara Black]] sets in the Sentier her third in Paris murder-thrillers with amateur sleuth Aimée Leduc: ''Murder in the Sentier'' (2003).
==Films shot in Sentier==
*[[1997 in film|1997]] ''XXL''  by [[Ariel Zeitoun]]
*[[1997 in film|1997:]] ''[[La Vérité si je mens !|La Vérité si je mens!]]'' Thomas Gilou
*[[2001 in film|2001:]] ''La Vérité si je mens!'' ''2''  Thomas Gilou
*[[2003 in film|2003:]] ''Monsieur Ibrahim'' Directed by Francois Dupeyron
*[[2010 in film|2010:]] Trails of Prosper and Nicolas Droin Hillairet
*2012: ''La Vérité si je mens!'' ''3''  Thomas Gilou
==External links==
*[http://www.mairie2.paris.fr/ Website of the Mairie of the 2nd arrondissement of Paris]
*[http://www.cee-recherche.fr/fr/publicationspdf/4pages49.pdf Company uses and inactivation of employment laws: The example of the Sentier]{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (French research report by a labour think tank)
*{{Coord|48.865893|2.347791}} : WikiMapia Satellite View of the Sentier district of Paris
== References ==
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[[Category:2nd arrondissement of Paris]]