VIII.8. A PLACE TO PITCH YOUR TENT?

IF YOU VISIT PARIS, THINK OF STAYING IN AN AREA THAT MOST TOURISTS OVERLOOK

The intersection of three bus and three métro lines intersecting at City Hall make this outlying area accessible.

This hotel, family-run for 30 years, has..

    Hotel web site

Le Vert Galant

43 rue Croulebarbe
www.vertgalant.com

• Intimacy.

• Rooms that give out onto its private garden.

• Fair price.

• Basque restaurant

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The tranquility comes from being next to the park that now covers over the Bièvre River. Imagining the combat that raged over its islands in 1871 almost impossible.

A young man who works for City Hall explains recycling details.

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Our walk highlights...

• Place de la Commune and its contradictory signs.
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• Street art.

• Saint-Anne church.

• Third World rebels' start as revolutionaries.

• An exceptional urban transformation.

For lunch...

•  Picnic in one of the parks, with cheese from this shop.

Genty gastronomie

169 boulevard Vincent Auriol

(a few minutes from parc de Choisy)

It does is own aging and suggests special deals. For baguettes, there's a pleasant boulangerie across the street.  

• Or in a quiet, shaded square are two inexpensive restaurants for discerning locals (on place des Alpes, across the street):

 

Crêperie Paris Breizh

www.creperieparisbreizh.fr/restaurant/paris-xiii/

The street barriers protect a school, so you dine on a terrace with no passage of cars.

For both, recent greening makes dining even more pleasant.

Such change is happening throughout Paris: 

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Facing those restaurants:  

    The school the barriers protect 

The École des Arts et Métiers, avenue Stephen-Pichon

A former factory

Suggestion:

Visit Paris for the 13th's festival

and explore a largely undiscovered city.

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What happened? The war did