~aventures du louchette flâneurse: 51ème~

January 4th, 2010

Today is an editing day, so I offer photographs of the second half of our Sunday. Cimetière de Montmartre was built below street level in the hollow of an old gypsum quarry and opened on 1 January 1825. It is the final address of Truffaut, Picabia, Nijinsky, Foucault and courtesan Marie Duplessis, among others. On our last trip to Paris we stayed just up the street and crossed this bridge nearly every day without exploring the 11 hectares that make up the grounds. We discovered it is a charming and rather wildly unfurling landscape worthy of a longer visit in warmer weather. Particularly of appeal to me was the manner in which the bridge has been integrated, or built around this stone city. As we were there–once again–for research, after finding the second-to-last item on my treasure hunt(!), we took our freezing selves home to tea.