{"id":16711,"date":"2024-11-17T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=16711"},"modified":"2024-11-14T10:42:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T10:42:14","slug":"buttes-chaumont-and-belleville-traversee-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=16711","title":{"rendered":"Buttes Chaumont and Belleville Travers\u00e9e 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Buttes Chaumont and Belleville Travers\u00e9e<\/strong>: Monday 17th November 2008 was the last day of our stay in Paris where I had come with my wife for a week for me to go to Paris Photo and for the two of us to enjoy the city and the huge number of photographic shows that were taking place there. On My London Diary you can read PARIS SUPPLEMENT<\/a>, my diary of our week there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rue de Tanger, 19e<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We had arrived in Paris the previous Monday and the first thing we did on arriving there was to buy our weekly tickets – then Carte Orange – for bus and metro transport across the city – incredible value for those used to UK transport prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Parc de Buttes Chaumont<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But that of course had finished on Sunday. And the only real way to see any city is on foot, so we decided to spend the day before our Eurostar train left for London at 17.13 taking a walk around some of our favourite places, booking out but leaving our cases in the hotel foyer to collect later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le Voltigeur on the courner of rue des Couronnes<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As you will see from the pictures here we first made our way to Paris’s most fantastic park, Buttes Chaumont, a former gypsum quarry and waste tip converted into gothic fantasy, and then on to Belleville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Earlier in our stay we had visited the Bar Floreal where I had been given a free copy of a small book produced some years earlier for a show there by Willy Ronis (1910-2009), one of my several favourite photographers of Paris, ‘la travers\u00e9e de Belleville’ which describes his favourite walk around the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rue Laurence Savart, 20e<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Linda was keen to use this and find exactly the scenes in his pictures, while I was more interested in making my own pictures, and had followed a quite similar route some years earlier. But it was interesting to see it through his eyes, although considerable redevelopment had changed the area since he walked it in 1990. And more since 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rue de la Fontaine au Roi, 11e<\/em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Rather more atmospheric than my pictures is the video which Ronis appears<\/a> and speaks about some of his pictures in made at the time of the show in 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rue de la Fontaine au Roi, 11e<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately the restaurant \u2018Aux Monts D\u2019Auvergne<\/em>\u2019 at which we ate a splendid three course lunch had been replaced by another by the time we next came to Paris. After the large meal we struggled a little but did just about manage to finish the ‘Travers\u00e9e’, walk back to the hotel to collect our luggage and catch our train and were back home on the outskirts of London by 8pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Canal St Martin<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There is more detail about the day in the text on My London Diary as well as in the picture captions – and as usual many more pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buttes Chaumont \/ Belleville Travers\u00e9e<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flickr<\/a> – Facebook<\/a> – My London Diary<\/a> – Hull Photos<\/a> – Lea Valley<\/a> – Paris<\/a>
London’s Industrial Heritage<\/a> – London Photos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All photographs on this page are copyright \u00a9 Peter Marshall.
Contact me to buy prints or licence to reproduce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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