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Built in 1926, Villa Léandre is one of those privileged, quiet, discreet little roads, born on the ruins of Paris' most famous maquis. With its small Anglo-Norman or Art Nouveau style houses, its cobblestones and its small gardens that rival each other in originality, the little dead end seems to transport us far from Paris, out of time. This dead end is reminiscent of some of the British capital's most emblematic streets: the tiny flower gardens, the bow-windows so British, the slate-roofed brick houses, the small white pavilions with colourful shutters... London is revealed here in small touches! At number 10, a small inscription even winked at London's most famous address: 10 Downing Street, the British Prime Minister's residence.
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Villa Léandre
Villa LéandreBuilt in 1926, Villa Léandre is one of those privileged, quiet, discreet little roads, born on the ruins of Paris' most famous maquis. With its small Anglo-Norman or Art Nouveau style houses, its cobblestones and its small gardens that rival each other in originality, the little dead end seems to transport us far from Paris, out of time. This dead end is reminiscent of some of the British capital's most emblematic streets: the tiny flower gardens, the bow-windows so British, the slate-roofed brick houses, the small white pavilions with colourful shutters... London is revealed here in small touches! At number 10, a small inscription even winked at London's most famous address: 10 Downing Street, the British Prime Minister's residence.
We can see the Sacré Coeur at the end of the charming rue de l'Abreuvoir, which we will immediately take. Borrowed by the population to obtain water, it then leads to the water trough of Montmartre, now disappeared, where horses and cattle are driven in the evening, below the current Dalida Square. The Chemin de l'Abreuvoir, which became a street in 1863.
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Buste ni Dalida
Rue de l'AbreuvoirWe can see the Sacré Coeur at the end of the charming rue de l'Abreuvoir, which we will immediately take. Borrowed by the population to obtain water, it then leads to the water trough of Montmartre, now disappeared, where horses and cattle are driven in the evening, below the current Dalida Square. The Chemin de l'Abreuvoir, which became a street in 1863.
This building was immortalized and made famous by the painter Utrillo. Overhung by a 1930s villa, the building has changed little since 1910, when this shack was a kind of family boarding house, a modest restaurant where artists came to eat. Recognizable by its pastel pink facade and green letters, it was painted according to the desire of Laure Germaine Gargallo, a cocotte friend of artists and model of the blue period of Picasso, who had at heart to open a small restaurant for famous relatives.
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La Maison Rose
2 Rue de l'AbreuvoirThis building was immortalized and made famous by the painter Utrillo. Overhung by a 1930s villa, the building has changed little since 1910, when this shack was a kind of family boarding house, a modest restaurant where artists came to eat. Recognizable by its pastel pink facade and green letters, it was painted according to the desire of Laure Germaine Gargallo, a cocotte friend of artists and model of the blue period of Picasso, who had at heart to open a small restaurant for famous relatives.
At the beginning of the 20th century, mythical place of the Montmartre artistic bohemian at its height, the cabaret Au Lapin Agile experienced a turbulent trajectory. Alternately inn, dance hall, cabaret, the Agile Rabbit "tells us about a time that the under twentys can't know", the tales of the bohemian and the secrets of a distant Paris.
If the building that houses the Agile Rabbit was built in 1795, it was from 1860 that it became a popular guesthouse. On the heights of a rural Montmartre flourishes the peaceful village of artists planted with mills while lower down along the granting wall, pleasure and crime mingle in festive orgies. A tribute to this underwhelmed neighbourhood, the establishment was then called Au rendez-vous des voleurs and in 1869 became Le Cabaret des Assassins in reference to the walls decorated with paintings and engravings representing famous murderers such as Ravaillac or Troppmann.
Around 1875, André Gill (1840-1885), a famous caricaturist from La Butte, used to the area, imagined a rabbit in a frock coat leaping from a saucepan as a sign. A legend has it that it could well be a self-portrait of the artist in a runaway rabbit, a reference to the fact that Gill, who participated in the Commune in 1871, escaped without damage. The local residents then got into the habit of naming the ringette after the Gill Rabbit, which gradually became the agile Rabbit. The original sign was stolen in 1893 and on the one that replaced it, the bug lost its green frock coat.
Around 1900, the place was taken over by Frédéric Gérard (1860-1938), known as Father Frédé. A colourful character from Montmartre, an unhappy cabaret owner who had just been forced to close his establishment Le Zut following a fight that turned into a riot between the local marlous, he took with him a whole menagerie: the donkey Lolo, the bitch Friska, a monkey, a raven, white mice. Friends of painters and poets, he animates the evenings of the Agile Rabbit by singing realistic songs and romances that he accompanies on guitar. Rapins, writers, crooks, anarchists all find themselves together in a mixture of singular genres. We meet Maurice Utrillo, Georges Braque, Amadeo Modigliani... Apollinaire reads the poems from his collection Alcools. In 1905, Pablo Picasso offered a painting, the Harlequin by the glass. He represents himself as a harlequin with a glass at the counter, Frédé with the guitar at the back. This painting remained on the wall of the Agile Rabbit until 1911, when Father Frédé sold it for a few thousand francs, feeling that Picasso was beginning to be known. He should have waited. It was purchased for a few million francs in 1989 by the Metropolitan Museum of New York. The décor of the Agile Rabbit is enriched with works that unsilvered artists exchange for a meal or as a token of their appreciation.
Now a true cultural institution, the Agile Rabbit welcomes artists and thugs, but Father Frédé, who would like to rebuild his reputation, is trying to keep the thugs away from his cabaret. Tensions were at their height in 1910, during an incident in which his son Totor, Victor, died from a stray bullet behind the counter. In 1913, the building, which was threatened with destruction, was bought by Aristide Bruant, a famous lyricist living opposite the Maison Rose, who left its management to Father Frédé. Until 1914, under the great acacia tree, the Agile Rabbit was the bohemian's home, but after the war, artists who preferred Montparnasse to Montmartre did not return. As the Maquis de la Butte and its village atmosphere gradually disappeared, in 1922, Aristide Bruant sold the cabaret to Paulo, to whom he had taught to sing, Frédé's son. In 1972, Paulo handed over the management to Yves Mathieu, his son-in-law, who continues the tradition today. The original lower room has been preserved and the singing evenings for a very touristic audience rely on catchy complaints rather than text songs.
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Lapin Agile
22 Rue des SaulesAt the beginning of the 20th century, mythical place of the Montmartre artistic bohemian at its height, the cabaret Au Lapin Agile experienced a turbulent trajectory. Alternately inn, dance hall, cabaret, the Agile Rabbit "tells us about a time that the under twentys can't know", the tales of the bohemian and the secrets of a distant Paris.
If the building that houses the Agile Rabbit was built in 1795, it was from 1860 that it became a popular guesthouse. On the heights of a rural Montmartre flourishes the peaceful village of artists planted with mills while lower down along the granting wall, pleasure and crime mingle in festive orgies. A tribute to this underwhelmed neighbourhood, the establishment was then called Au rendez-vous des voleurs and in 1869 became Le Cabaret des Assassins in reference to the walls decorated with paintings and engravings representing famous murderers such as Ravaillac or Troppmann.
Around 1875, André Gill (1840-1885), a famous caricaturist from La Butte, used to the area, imagined a rabbit in a frock coat leaping from a saucepan as a sign. A legend has it that it could well be a self-portrait of the artist in a runaway rabbit, a reference to the fact that Gill, who participated in the Commune in 1871, escaped without damage. The local residents then got into the habit of naming the ringette after the Gill Rabbit, which gradually became the agile Rabbit. The original sign was stolen in 1893 and on the one that replaced it, the bug lost its green frock coat.
Around 1900, the place was taken over by Frédéric Gérard (1860-1938), known as Father Frédé. A colourful character from Montmartre, an unhappy cabaret owner who had just been forced to close his establishment Le Zut following a fight that turned into a riot between the local marlous, he took with him a whole menagerie: the donkey Lolo, the bitch Friska, a monkey, a raven, white mice. Friends of painters and poets, he animates the evenings of the Agile Rabbit by singing realistic songs and romances that he accompanies on guitar. Rapins, writers, crooks, anarchists all find themselves together in a mixture of singular genres. We meet Maurice Utrillo, Georges Braque, Amadeo Modigliani... Apollinaire reads the poems from his collection Alcools. In 1905, Pablo Picasso offered a painting, the Harlequin by the glass. He represents himself as a harlequin with a glass at the counter, Frédé with the guitar at the back. This painting remained on the wall of the Agile Rabbit until 1911, when Father Frédé sold it for a few thousand francs, feeling that Picasso was beginning to be known. He should have waited. It was purchased for a few million francs in 1989 by the Metropolitan Museum of New York. The décor of the Agile Rabbit is enriched with works that unsilvered artists exchange for a meal or as a token of their appreciation.
Now a true cultural institution, the Agile Rabbit welcomes artists and thugs, but Father Frédé, who would like to rebuild his reputation, is trying to keep the thugs away from his cabaret. Tensions were at their height in 1910, during an incident in which his son Totor, Victor, died from a stray bullet behind the counter. In 1913, the building, which was threatened with destruction, was bought by Aristide Bruant, a famous lyricist living opposite the Maison Rose, who left its management to Father Frédé. Until 1914, under the great acacia tree, the Agile Rabbit was the bohemian's home, but after the war, artists who preferred Montparnasse to Montmartre did not return. As the Maquis de la Butte and its village atmosphere gradually disappeared, in 1922, Aristide Bruant sold the cabaret to Paulo, to whom he had taught to sing, Frédé's son. In 1972, Paulo handed over the management to Yves Mathieu, his son-in-law, who continues the tradition today. The original lower room has been preserved and the singing evenings for a very touristic audience rely on catchy complaints rather than text songs.
In the vineyards of Montmartre, the Harvest Festival has been held on the second weekend of October for nearly 80 years. Owned by the City of Paris and maintained by a special team of Parks and Green Spaces agents, the vineyard is spread over five levels distributed along a sloping plot of 1536m2. This pocket vineyard, curiously oriented due north, although it is part of an ancient tradition, produces only a small sour wine, a picturesque wine from the Clos Montmartre. The profits from the sale of the bottles are donated to social causes.
The first vineyards in Montmartre date back to Gallo-Roman times. The Saint-Pierre church, rue du Mont-Cenis, was built on the traces of a temple dedicated to Bacchus but it was not until the Middle Ages that wine-growing activity flourished. In the 12th century, the Ladies of the Abbey of Montmartre developed the production of wine from the Butte in order to improve the community's income under the impetus of Adelaide of Savoy (1092-1154), Montmartre's first abbess. The nuns have their own vineyard and the only wine press in the village. Over the following centuries, the Abbey, facing setbacks, gradually sold its land and by the end of the 15th century the winegrowers cultivated their own vines and tinkered with a cheap piquette.
In the 17th century, the hill was 3/4 covered with vines. Parisians escaping from the capital city hit by the grant climb up to the small village to celebrate duty-free. Taking advantage of the opportunity, guinguettes, taverns and balls multiplied. In the middle of the 19th century, as quarrying developed and urbanisation linked to demographic fluctuations accelerated, vineyards declined. Struck by competition from wines from sunnier regions and by the insect pest phylloxera that thrives on the Butte, the Montmartre wines are gradually stretching. In 1860, the annexation of the town to Paris marked the definitive decline in production.
Today, among the two thousand vines that grow in the sandy soil of Fontainebleau, typical of the region, there are no less than twenty-seven different grape varieties, mainly Gamay and Pinot Noir but also Sauvignon Blanc and Riesling. Due to the north-facing exposure, the harvest is late. City officials and volunteers meet every year, pruning shears by hand, to harvest 1000kg of grapes in a little over two hours.
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Vignes du Clos Montmartre
Rue des SaulesIn the vineyards of Montmartre, the Harvest Festival has been held on the second weekend of October for nearly 80 years. Owned by the City of Paris and maintained by a special team of Parks and Green Spaces agents, the vineyard is spread over five levels distributed along a sloping plot of 1536m2. This pocket vineyard, curiously oriented due north, although it is part of an ancient tradition, produces only a small sour wine, a picturesque wine from the Clos Montmartre. The profits from the sale of the bottles are donated to social causes.
The first vineyards in Montmartre date back to Gallo-Roman times. The Saint-Pierre church, rue du Mont-Cenis, was built on the traces of a temple dedicated to Bacchus but it was not until the Middle Ages that wine-growing activity flourished. In the 12th century, the Ladies of the Abbey of Montmartre developed the production of wine from the Butte in order to improve the community's income under the impetus of Adelaide of Savoy (1092-1154), Montmartre's first abbess. The nuns have their own vineyard and the only wine press in the village. Over the following centuries, the Abbey, facing setbacks, gradually sold its land and by the end of the 15th century the winegrowers cultivated their own vines and tinkered with a cheap piquette.
In the 17th century, the hill was 3/4 covered with vines. Parisians escaping from the capital city hit by the grant climb up to the small village to celebrate duty-free. Taking advantage of the opportunity, guinguettes, taverns and balls multiplied. In the middle of the 19th century, as quarrying developed and urbanisation linked to demographic fluctuations accelerated, vineyards declined. Struck by competition from wines from sunnier regions and by the insect pest phylloxera that thrives on the Butte, the Montmartre wines are gradually stretching. In 1860, the annexation of the town to Paris marked the definitive decline in production.
Today, among the two thousand vines that grow in the sandy soil of Fontainebleau, typical of the region, there are no less than twenty-seven different grape varieties, mainly Gamay and Pinot Noir but also Sauvignon Blanc and Riesling. Due to the north-facing exposure, the harvest is late. City officials and volunteers meet every year, pruning shears by hand, to harvest 1000kg of grapes in a little over two hours.
This square is the centre of the former commune of Montmartre and already existed in the 14th century. It is on these sites that the patibular forks of the Abbesses of Montmartre stood.
The commune of Montmartre was created in 1790, the National Assembly having decreed that a municipality would be created in each town, village or parish. At No. 3 Place du Tertre, what was once the first town hall of the town is now located: Félix Desportes was the first mayor. It was a bourgeois from Rouen who settled in Place du Tertre in 1788. He transformed his residence into a town hall and firmly established this municipality until April 1793. A zealous patriot, he gave the first names of Flore Pierrette Montmartre to his daughter born in May 1791. A little further on at N°6 Le restaurant de la Mère Catherine was founded in 1793, during the French revolution. In this place steeped in history, Danton came to relax with his disciples and left engraved on the walls: "Let us drink and eat because tomorrow we will die. »
It is also said that in 1814, the Cossacks passing through Montmartre during the Russian occupation of Paris (1814-1818) after the defeat of Napoleon I, not having the authorization of their officers, came to have a drink there by shouting "Bistro, Bistro..." or "Quick, fast" in Russian, thus bringing forth on the Hill the ancestor of our Parisian bistros.
Later on, the Place du Tertre saw the departure of the French automotive industry. On December 24, 1898, Louis Renault climbed the Butte with one of his vehicles to prove their effectiveness on the hills. A plaque celebrating this event is visible at the northwest corner of the square, it reads:
"For the first time on December 25, 1898, a petrol car, driven by Louis Renault, its manufacturer, reached the Place du Tertre, thus marking the start of the French automobile industry".
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Place du Tertre
Place du TertreThis square is the centre of the former commune of Montmartre and already existed in the 14th century. It is on these sites that the patibular forks of the Abbesses of Montmartre stood.
The commune of Montmartre was created in 1790, the National Assembly having decreed that a municipality would be created in each town, village or parish. At No. 3 Place du Tertre, what was once the first town hall of the town is now located: Félix Desportes was the first mayor. It was a bourgeois from Rouen who settled in Place du Tertre in 1788. He transformed his residence into a town hall and firmly established this municipality until April 1793. A zealous patriot, he gave the first names of Flore Pierrette Montmartre to his daughter born in May 1791. A little further on at N°6 Le restaurant de la Mère Catherine was founded in 1793, during the French revolution. In this place steeped in history, Danton came to relax with his disciples and left engraved on the walls: "Let us drink and eat because tomorrow we will die. »
It is also said that in 1814, the Cossacks passing through Montmartre during the Russian occupation of Paris (1814-1818) after the defeat of Napoleon I, not having the authorization of their officers, came to have a drink there by shouting "Bistro, Bistro..." or "Quick, fast" in Russian, thus bringing forth on the Hill the ancestor of our Parisian bistros.
Later on, the Place du Tertre saw the departure of the French automotive industry. On December 24, 1898, Louis Renault climbed the Butte with one of his vehicles to prove their effectiveness on the hills. A plaque celebrating this event is visible at the northwest corner of the square, it reads:
"For the first time on December 25, 1898, a petrol car, driven by Louis Renault, its manufacturer, reached the Place du Tertre, thus marking the start of the French automobile industry".
Here you can see Dalida's house, a 1900s style private mansion that was inhabited by the writer Céline from 1929 to 1944 when he moved to rue Girardon. A tale then lived there and when the house was put up for sale, Dalida won it against... the french actor Jean-Paul Belmondo!
Rue d'Orchampt
Rue d'OrchamptHere you can see Dalida's house, a 1900s style private mansion that was inhabited by the writer Céline from 1929 to 1944 when he moved to rue Girardon. A tale then lived there and when the house was put up for sale, Dalida won it against... the french actor Jean-Paul Belmondo!
Here, we have a breathtaking view of the basilica. The advantage: almost no tourist ventures on this side of the Sacré Coeur, so you will have it all to yourself! Then, you go around the monumental building on the right. We also go around Square Nadar on the right, take a look at the rooftops of Paris and the Eiffel Tower, and go down the stairs of rue Chappe. The Montmartre arenas are on your right. Fake antic areanas, they have been created in 1941 by an association from Montmartre, they do not necessarily deserve to be studied...
Rue de la Bonne
Rue de la BonneHere, we have a breathtaking view of the basilica. The advantage: almost no tourist ventures on this side of the Sacré Coeur, so you will have it all to yourself! Then, you go around the monumental building on the right. We also go around Square Nadar on the right, take a look at the rooftops of Paris and the Eiffel Tower, and go down the stairs of rue Chappe. The Montmartre arenas are on your right. Fake antic areanas, they have been created in 1941 by an association from Montmartre, they do not necessarily deserve to be studied...
On the Butte Montmartre, there were up to 12 mills in the middle of the vines in 1740, built from 1529, they were destroyed one by one between 1758 and 1854. A real flour factory since 1622, it became an authentic guinguette in 1834. A look back at the history of this precious Parisian heritage.
When buying the two mills on rue Lepic, the "Blute-fin" (which comes from the verb "bluter" meaning "to sift the flour to separate it from the bran") and the "Radet", in 1809, the Debray family had no idea that their little corner of the Montmartre countryside would become part of the legend. It should be noted that at that time, the Montmartre district was not yet part of the Paris commune. Between them stood the wall of the Farmers General. However, this did not prevent Parisians from going there to enjoy a walk in the open air and taste, by the way, Mother Debray's succulent pancakes. Made from rye flour directly from the mill, these rolls were enjoyed with a glass of milk, and soon a glass of local wine, pressed under the Debrays' cheeses. Because the mill was not only used to grind wheat: it was used to press the grapes or crush the materials needed by the factories. In 1834, the Debray mills saw their activity fail in the face of competition and turned into a popular ball. In 1810, Montmartre had 16 authorized balls, which could announce their opening, and many other balls or dances. They are open on Sundays, Mondays and public holidays. Montmartre had 636 inhabitants in 1806, and the clientele came mainly from Paris. La Butte is a pleasant and shaded countryside area, with vineyards and many springs. In 1834, one of the sons of the Debray family, owner of the Radet and Blute-Fin mills, healed from his wound following a spear blow received in 1814 in the stomach during the defence of Paris (after which he could never drink alcohol again) opened a guinguette near the Radet. You can taste cakes, made by his wife, accompanied by a sour wine grown on the sides of the hill. The success is immediate and the clientele popular. The creation of Lepic Street makes it easier to access the top of the hill by avoiding the use of very poorly maintained muddy roads. The population increased in 1861 to 57,000 inhabitants, most of whom were driven out of the city as a result of Baron Haussmann's work. First known as Bal Debray, it changed its name in 1895 to "Le Moulin de la Galette". The success is immediate! Every Sunday and public holidays, customers flock to dance polka, quadrille, chahut, cancan and french-cancan. First an open-air dance hall, a closed ballroom was then built near the Radet. From the 1900s onwards, the Moulin de la Galette gained in popularity and very quickly became the privileged home of many celebrities (painters, draftsmen, actors...). As the dance hall has become obsolete, in the middle of the 20th century, it hosted a music hall, followed by television and radio sets. The mill was restored in 1978, but will never be reused again. Listed as a historic monument in 1958, it is now considered to be the last working windmill in Paris.
It was immortalized by Van Gogh, painted by Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Utrillo...
Van Gogh Parenthesis: March 1886. Vincent Van Gogh decided to move to the French capital on a whim. He joined his brother, Theo, director of the Paris branch of one of Europe's leading art dealers, Goupil. The two brothers then lived in an apartment at 25 rue Victor Massé, a stone's throw from the Chat Noir and in a district in the midst of a renaissance thanks to the presence of many innovative artists, eager for a bohemian life and pleasures. However, he soon left this apartment to settle a little higher on the hill. Thus, it was at 54 rue Lepic that he produced most of his Parisian works.
And what works! The Moulin de la Galette, the quarries and wastelands of Montmartre, the rooftops of Paris, the view from his window, on the third floor of his report building, everything that is "Parisian"... Van Gogh's works at that time, naturally less colourful than those he made in Provence a few months later, are eclectic, full of life or melancholic, but always bold.
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Le Moulin de la Galette
83 Rue LepicOn the Butte Montmartre, there were up to 12 mills in the middle of the vines in 1740, built from 1529, they were destroyed one by one between 1758 and 1854. A real flour factory since 1622, it became an authentic guinguette in 1834. A look back at the history of this precious Parisian heritage.
When buying the two mills on rue Lepic, the "Blute-fin" (which comes from the verb "bluter" meaning "to sift the flour to separate it from the bran") and the "Radet", in 1809, the Debray family had no idea that their little corner of the Montmartre countryside would become part of the legend. It should be noted that at that time, the Montmartre district was not yet part of the Paris commune. Between them stood the wall of the Farmers General. However, this did not prevent Parisians from going there to enjoy a walk in the open air and taste, by the way, Mother Debray's succulent pancakes. Made from rye flour directly from the mill, these rolls were enjoyed with a glass of milk, and soon a glass of local wine, pressed under the Debrays' cheeses. Because the mill was not only used to grind wheat: it was used to press the grapes or crush the materials needed by the factories. In 1834, the Debray mills saw their activity fail in the face of competition and turned into a popular ball. In 1810, Montmartre had 16 authorized balls, which could announce their opening, and many other balls or dances. They are open on Sundays, Mondays and public holidays. Montmartre had 636 inhabitants in 1806, and the clientele came mainly from Paris. La Butte is a pleasant and shaded countryside area, with vineyards and many springs. In 1834, one of the sons of the Debray family, owner of the Radet and Blute-Fin mills, healed from his wound following a spear blow received in 1814 in the stomach during the defence of Paris (after which he could never drink alcohol again) opened a guinguette near the Radet. You can taste cakes, made by his wife, accompanied by a sour wine grown on the sides of the hill. The success is immediate and the clientele popular. The creation of Lepic Street makes it easier to access the top of the hill by avoiding the use of very poorly maintained muddy roads. The population increased in 1861 to 57,000 inhabitants, most of whom were driven out of the city as a result of Baron Haussmann's work. First known as Bal Debray, it changed its name in 1895 to "Le Moulin de la Galette". The success is immediate! Every Sunday and public holidays, customers flock to dance polka, quadrille, chahut, cancan and french-cancan. First an open-air dance hall, a closed ballroom was then built near the Radet. From the 1900s onwards, the Moulin de la Galette gained in popularity and very quickly became the privileged home of many celebrities (painters, draftsmen, actors...). As the dance hall has become obsolete, in the middle of the 20th century, it hosted a music hall, followed by television and radio sets. The mill was restored in 1978, but will never be reused again. Listed as a historic monument in 1958, it is now considered to be the last working windmill in Paris.
It was immortalized by Van Gogh, painted by Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Utrillo...
Van Gogh Parenthesis: March 1886. Vincent Van Gogh decided to move to the French capital on a whim. He joined his brother, Theo, director of the Paris branch of one of Europe's leading art dealers, Goupil. The two brothers then lived in an apartment at 25 rue Victor Massé, a stone's throw from the Chat Noir and in a district in the midst of a renaissance thanks to the presence of many innovative artists, eager for a bohemian life and pleasures. However, he soon left this apartment to settle a little higher on the hill. Thus, it was at 54 rue Lepic that he produced most of his Parisian works.
And what works! The Moulin de la Galette, the quarries and wastelands of Montmartre, the rooftops of Paris, the view from his window, on the third floor of his report building, everything that is "Parisian"... Van Gogh's works at that time, naturally less colourful than those he made in Provence a few months later, are eclectic, full of life or melancholic, but always bold.
The Passe-muraille, frozen in the wall of Place Marcel Aymé, is a statue created by the actor Jean Marais, in homage to the work of the writer Marcel Aymé!
Originally from Yonne, Marcel Aymé spent a good part of his life in Montmartre, rue Norvins. He therefore located most of his novels in this area.
In the short story entitled "Le Passe-muraille", Dutilleul, a modest office employee at the Ministry of Registration in Montmartre, discovered one evening that he had the power to cross the walls. He first uses this ability to take revenge for humiliations at the office, then commits burglaries and becomes a rich man, before being thrown in jail and... escaping from it! Falling in love with a pretty woman crossed rue Lepic, he crossed the walls to find her again under the nose and beard of the jealous husband, until the day when he lost his gift, he remained permanently frozen inside a wall, rue Norvins...
Jean Marais, a French actor and sculptor, immortalized the wall pass in 1989 in the wall in front of Marcel Aymé's house.
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Le Passe-Muraille
Place Marcel AyméThe Passe-muraille, frozen in the wall of Place Marcel Aymé, is a statue created by the actor Jean Marais, in homage to the work of the writer Marcel Aymé!
Originally from Yonne, Marcel Aymé spent a good part of his life in Montmartre, rue Norvins. He therefore located most of his novels in this area.
In the short story entitled "Le Passe-muraille", Dutilleul, a modest office employee at the Ministry of Registration in Montmartre, discovered one evening that he had the power to cross the walls. He first uses this ability to take revenge for humiliations at the office, then commits burglaries and becomes a rich man, before being thrown in jail and... escaping from it! Falling in love with a pretty woman crossed rue Lepic, he crossed the walls to find her again under the nose and beard of the jealous husband, until the day when he lost his gift, he remained permanently frozen inside a wall, rue Norvins...
Jean Marais, a French actor and sculptor, immortalized the wall pass in 1989 in the wall in front of Marcel Aymé's house.
This four-handed work (Frédéric Baron and Claire Kito) allows you to discover the words "I love you" written in 250 languages. The red flashes on the fresco are the pieces of a broken heart, symbol of a humanity that is being torn apart and that the wall tends to gather.
The Abbesses metro station is the deepest metro station in Paris: 36 metres below ground level. The Guimard aedicula that adorns its access was originally at the Hôtel de Ville station. It was moved to Abbesses station in 1974. Its presence on a station of the former North-South society is a historical contradiction because it did not use this type of aedicula for its stations. It was listed as a Historic Monument by the decree of 29 May 1978.
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Pader ng Pag-ibig
14 Pl. des AbbessesThis four-handed work (Frédéric Baron and Claire Kito) allows you to discover the words "I love you" written in 250 languages. The red flashes on the fresco are the pieces of a broken heart, symbol of a humanity that is being torn apart and that the wall tends to gather.
The Abbesses metro station is the deepest metro station in Paris: 36 metres below ground level. The Guimard aedicula that adorns its access was originally at the Hôtel de Ville station. It was moved to Abbesses station in 1974. Its presence on a station of the former North-South society is a historical contradiction because it did not use this type of aedicula for its stations. It was listed as a Historic Monument by the decree of 29 May 1978.