The stairs of Montmartre - Rue du Calvaire
January 15th, 2006
The shortest way if sometimes the harder, think about it when you will climb these stairs. To discover Montmartre, take a ride on the Funiculaire de Montmartre (climbing railway), have a look around and walk down the stairs. They have been build on the original pathway and are usually older than the streets.
Yous can easilly imagine the “Poulbots”, the children from Montmartre, playing and running down. Even Fran篩s Truffaut shoot them in Les quatre cents coups, a film made in 1958 from his own story, with Jean-Pierre Léaud, playing the character of Antoine Doinel.
Entry Filed under: Montmartre, Paris, Streets
4 Comments Add your own
1. Michele | January 18th, 2006 at 11:22 pm
I love this photo. I’d be afraid I’d fall from that perspective, though. Those are some steep steps.
2. Tomate Farcie | January 23rd, 2006 at 6:43 am
Yes, I love that photograph too. I have one by Brassai of these very same steps, if memory serves. But I think I love it most because I have some vague recollection of playing on these very steps as a kid. Nostalgie quand tu nous tiens…
Excellent blog, by the way!
3. Louisa | September 19th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
not even 25 hours go i have been in paris. it’s just wonderful. lovly pic. so romanticccccc….
4. pete marsh | October 27th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
The photo is so realistic
At the top of the hill there is tranquility in sacre Couer
Below there is a pandora’s box of humanity
La Pigalle et Le Moulin Rouge.
If you enter the church just sniff the air and try to experience true joy
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