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Real heart of the city, the Republic’s place is the result of a gradual adjustment to suit many architectural and urban operations.

It is located south of the ancient Roman forum. In the Middle Ages it is reduced to a narrow courtyard between the Church of St.Trophime and the Church of St. Anne. His current area was occupied by several blocks of houses.

It is mainly from the construction of City Hall in the seventeenth century, the place is profoundly changed.

It is enriched over time monument style and various functions, to present a final original set, punctuated by the order of multiple fronts, giving it the look of an Italian place.

Its large surface allows it to accommodate the public of important traditional events, such as the triennial election of the “Queen of Arles.”

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the Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin’s channels are the two branches of a network devised from the eighteenth century to allow boats to pass through the capital by cutting a loop of the Seine. Decided by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802, the construction was completed only in 1825 and 1821. The Canal Saint-Martin, wholly located in Paris, where reigned for a century an incessant traffic and the atmosphere of a neighborhood, failed to disappear in the years 1950-1960 for the benefit of an expressway.

Rehabilitated, it has become, with its axis of a 4.5 km walkthrough the picturesque old Paris’ suburbs, it passes through the fourth, tenth, eleventh and nineteenth  districts. The Channel Saint-Denis has kept him on its industrial way, with deserted quays, warehouses and lined sites of all kinds, evoke the scenery of a “drama movie”.

The Canal Saint-Martin, designed by Louis XIV, was first begun under Napoleon and completed in 1825. It remains one of the most picturesque urban landscape and, paradoxically, one of the least known of Paris. Its banks experienced an intense time. Dozens of barges carrying sand and coal each day. The lock is activated manually.

Today, killed by road transport, the channel sees only two or three barges a day. It connects the pelvis from the Arsenal to the Bassin de la Villette and has nine locks and two swing bridges. He almost disappear again elsewhere, when in the early 70s, the Paris City Council adopted a proposed four-lane highway to cover it. The  president at the time considered him a very favorable.

The mobilization of local residents and the blatant stupidity of the project did not realized that of course. As a result, the Parisians rediscovered the canal, its nine locks, its banks lined with trees, small squares, metal bridges in the Venetian or turning, bodies of water sometimes higher than the road itself, that make up the one of the most romantic landscapes of Paris. The channel has also inspired  many writers including Simenon and Leo Malet in Hast thou seen a corpse?

At the crossroads of Grange aux Belles Vinaigrier is the famous scene of the film by Marcel Carné (Hôtel du Nord) and the gateway to initiate replication when  Arletty now passed on to posterity. For the record, Arletty never set foot on this bridge: the scene was shot in studio sets, it must be said, beautifully restored by Alexandre Trauner (the model is shown at the Museum of Cinema Henri  Langlois, place du Trocadéro).

At the street level of the locks Saint-Martin was the loss of Montfaucon gallows which rocked so crisp and brigands. Villon be escaped twice.

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The hill of Belleville, one of the highest points of the capital with the one of Montmartre, which was once covered with vineyards that produced the tavern, a young wine and bubbly. The La Taverne Royale called the Piquette, whose name will be diverted in the future. Later, she was home – while Belleville was still an independent municipality of the capital – the cabarets where gypsum quarry workers came to relax and have taken their name to the wine produced there.

The turn of the century will see the rehabilitation of the hill has become unsafe with the creation of Belleville Park, a garden of 4.5 hectares, overlooking all of Paris today. The visitor stopped in amazement before this unique and beautiful panorama.

According to his walks, one can find a cascading fountain, unfortunately devoid of water in winter, we will not show (what could be sadder than a fountain without water?), A theater full air that we could show you and a small wooden bridge and, like the other best known, does little more than a great mystery …

And then time passes. Nature take its course, it has been so long robbed. Trees  soar, untamed. Basically,  a school house, a relic of a now defunct attendance. But  he will remain at the bottom, the memory of an unexpected encounter …

[Belleville's Parc, Paris XX]

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