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My Favorite Ramble Through the Historic Streets of Montmartre

Montmartre is a lovely place for an early morning walk. I love the cobbled streets and historic old buildings. They all work together to contribute to its village feeling rather than a busy city. So different from the rest of Paris as it is untouched by the Haussmannian changes that occurred at the turn of the 20th century, ...

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Le Passe-Muraille

Read my story in French » The History behind Le Passe-Muraille Le Passe-Muraille is a short story by Marcel Aymé (1902-1967) which is forever immortalized in a small square on rue Norvins in Paris. Le Passe-Muraille loosely translates as “walk through walls”. The statue in Place Marcel Aymé, which passes through the ...

Montmartre

Montmartre is a unique part of Paris that is untouched by the Haussmannian street reforms that you find in the city center. Here there are no wide sweeping boulevards. Instead there are the delightful climbing cobblestone streets of an urban village that are a delight to wander. Around Metro Abbesses Arriving at Abbesses ...