II.4.2. STREET ART AND A TRUE STORY THAT BECOMES A GAME FOR KIDS

MENU: 2.4.2.Street art & true story

 PEOPLE COME TO PHOTOGRAPH THE WALLS OF "BUTTE AUX CAILLES,"* ON THE SOUTHEASTERN FRINGE

* "Quail hilltop"

Photos taken in 2020: The pictures change, the spirit doesn't.

For kids a game,

for adults discovering a neighborhood

• Kids relate to the troubles of a teen-aged king... 

• Start at this market

• Comme to a "castle"

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Kids relate to the troubles of a teen-aged king...

KIDS RELATE TO THE TROUBLES OF A TEEN-AGED KING...

AND HIS COUP D'ETAT INTRIGUES THEM*

*For how Louis XIII came to power, please click Fatal passion at the Louvre

 

Maurice Leloir in Richelieu by Théodore Cahu, 1901, a history of France for children

The court ignores him and he pretends to be retarded...

He threatens to shoot his toy cannon at ladies-in-waiting.

But a few allies know differently and when he is 15, help him put through a coup d'état:

   "At last I am king!" he cries from a palace window. 

Louis has left signs so that his followers can join him at the castle where he hides. 

The children look for them. 

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Start at this market...

START AT THIS MARKET

ON TUESDAY, FRIDAY OR SUNDAY MORNINGS AT THE CORVISART MÉTRO STOP

Adapted from a Google map

The street behind the flower stand is filled with pictures:

 Rue des Cinq Diamants

The enclave has no bank or post office, just a grocery at the crossroads:

At the grocery turn right (on "Main Street," rue de la Butte-aux Cailles) to come to a crossroad ("place de la Commune"):

More here.

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Come to a "castle"

COME TO A "CASTLE"

WALK DOWN THE LANE WHERE THESE NEIGHBORS CHAT

(RUE BUOT)

Turn back...

Pass the grocery and take rue de la Butte-aux-Cailles in reverse, past cheerful cafés and restaurants... 

A crêperie

Descend the next small street to the right (passage Boiton)...

Saint-Anne's in the Butte-aux-Cailles: more later.

At the church, return to the restaurants and continue down the street:

At its end, the young king's hideaway... 

A swimming pool of the 1930's

And rewards:

Continue at 

the magnificent parc de Choisy

and have dinner in Chinatown.

End of this section.

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II.4.2.

 A wood where children play