Paris main visit page 2

Montmartre, intro

Unavoidable landmarks

Starting Jacks walking tour (1)

Cemetery- Moulin de  la Galette (2)

Passage avenue Junot, Villa Leandre (3)

Impasse Girardon, Square Buisson, allee des Brouillards (4)

Place Dalida, Musee du Vieux Montmartre (5)

Vineyards Montmartre, Cabaret Le Lapin Agile (6)

Cemetery Saint Vincent, The Paris Commune  history(7)

Cemetery Calvaire St.Pierre de Montmartre
Espace Dali -Folie Sandrin

WallaceFountains-Bateau Lavoir (9)

Place Abbesses-End of Montmartre visit 10)

Pigalle (11)

Introduction

Walking flea markets Malik, Vernaison and Paul Bert

Walking flea markets,Valles, Serpette, Biron and Cambo

Paris-18th arr-Cemetery du Calvaire-St.Pierre de Montmartre-Espace Dali-Folie Sandrin

Descend the abrupt Passage Cotton to the delicious passage Cottin. Come back on your steps to the CEMETERY DU CALVAIRE. Only vestige that survived the ancient abbey of Dames de Montmartre, the cemetery du Calvaire was the first even opened in Montmartre in 1688. It is located next to apse of the church but t opens only one a year on Nov 1, day of the dead. A certain Debray, professional miller, descending from a long dynasty of millers was buried mast and his tomb wears a miniature windmill. The very famous navigator de Bougainville threw his last anchor here like the sculptor Piglet and many other tombs of former mayors and celebrities. ! Don’t miss the antique roman columns: two of them are located at the entrance, against the wall, the two others inside the church.
The CHURCH OF SAINT PIERRE DE MONTMARTRE is the jewel of the butte, according to all its inhabitants. It’s the oldest church in Montmartre and don’t let the relatively recent façade (18th century) abuse you, the interior vault, dates from the 12th century in the purest roman style and the nave is from the 15th century. Don’t leave without having admired the splendid glass stained window of Max Ingrand, made in 1954.
We are practically on the place du Tertre, of which I promised neither to go through nor to visit. If you want absolutely play the perfect tourist, be my guest and mingle for a few minutes amidst this army of daubers, scribblers and failures. We wait max 10 minutes and will continue…………
Ok, lets’ go. PLACE DU CALVAIRE: holds the record of the smallest square in Paris. It is really a staircase “hard for the wretches and poor people”. Here is the restaurant “Patachou”, built on an important slope that offers a superb view from its garden side. Adorable little place du Calvaire. A useful hint: if you're in Paris on the 14th of July or another big event, and you want to see the fireworks, the best place is on the right side of the place du Calvaire.
We come now in the rue POULBOT. Quite special, carved into the Butte, at no.11 the ESPACE MONTMARTRE-DALI). Presenting lithography’s since 1990, sculptures, serigraphy’s, all in all about 300 works (Montre Molle) for the unconditional of Salvador Dali testifying the surrealist world of the master. Thanks to special effects, his works are well presented: dramatic light effects and the voice of the artist. An artist’s atelier is located on the top floor. Dali was a part of the intellectual and political movement of the Butte with Tzara, Picabia and Breton. In 1956, before the stunned tourists of the Place du Tertre, he realized his famous "Don Quichote" with as a paint-brush, guess what!!, a rhino horn. (anecdote related by the Routard).
From the rue Poulbot let’s enter the RUE NORVINS at no.22. This is the domain of the “FOLIE SANDRIN”, a countryside house that a mister Sandrin refurbished in the 18th century. He closed the park until the rue de l’Abreuvoir. Never the word “folly “ had its significance so clear as it is here. First used as a psychiatric institute with a very good reputation, (a court lady of Marie–Antoinette was a patient here) it housed also Jacques Arago, who succeeded to write a book of 62 pages without using once the letter “A”. Georges Perec succeeded recently to write one with the letter “E”. The most known case of occupant of the folie Sandrin was the poet Gerard de Nerval, sympathetic schizophrenic, walking with a live lobster on a leash in the jardins du Luxembourg!
Today the folie Sandrin only house normal tenants paying a regular rent.

Bibliography

Nouvelle Histoire de Paris, ed.Hachette--Le Pieton de Paris, by L.P.Fargue, ed.Gallimard -- Paris 19eme siecle, l'immeuble et la rue, by F.Loyer, ed.Hazan, 1994--Guide du Routard, 199 (ed.Hachette)--Montmartre, balades et decouvertes, by Vincent de Langlade, (own folders 1998),--Montmartre dans l'histoire de Paris, by E.Botteau ( Presse Cité, 1993)—Le 18th arrondissment, by Renaud Lefevre (ed.Nelle’s)