Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Paris: Secret Gardens, Hidden Places, and Stories of the City of Light, Mary McAuliffe, c. 2023.

Paris: Secret Gardens, Hidden Places, and Stories of the City of Light, Mary McAuliffe, c. 2023.

This really is a phenomenal book. Hardcover: around $25.

Twenty chapters. Each chapter is relatively short and covers one "area" of Paris.  

Chapter Eight
An Imperious Queen

In bold, this chapter:

  • Jardin du Luxembourg
  • Medici Fountain
  • 1 Rue du Bac
  • Church of Saint-Joseph-des-Carmens
  • Jardin des Carmes
  • Cherche-Midi Prison -- Capt Alfred Dreyfus
  • Théâtre de l'Odéon
  • 27 Rue de Fleurus -- Gertrude Stein -- Shakespeare and Company

Chapter Nine
Montmartre

Picasso arrived in 1900; called it a "real village."

The real Bohemian section of Paris.

Farmers-General Wall, torn down by Baron Georges Haussmann, mid-19th century.

Tax collectors: "harvesting import taxes" -- called "farmers" for that reason. 

In bold, this chapter:

  • Sacré-Coeur
  • Square Louise-Michel
  • Square NadarSquare Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet
  • Musée de Montmartre
  • Jardin Sauvage Saint-Vincent
  • Le Lapin Agile
  • Le Chat Noir
  • Square Joël Le Tac
  • Allée des Brouillards
  • Place Casadesus
  • Square Suzanne Buisson
  • Saint Denis
  • Place Marcel-Aymé
  • Le Mouli Blute-Fin
  • Le Moulin Radet
  • Le Moulin de la Galette
  • Beau-Lavoir


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