You walk down the artists' side of the hill: the house where Renoir and Suzanne Valadon lived, a vineyard planted so nothing could be built, the painting done with a donkey's tail, the pink house of a model from Picasso's Catalan circle, a hidden stone marking the north of Paris, the windmills and their dance hall, Vincent and Theo van Gogh's flat, the street that wouldn't let the cannon through, and the Moulin Rouge, on a hill made of gypsum.
You start in Rue Cortot, at the seventeenth-century house where Renoir rented a studio and where Suzanne Valadon and Maurice Utrillo later settled. Next door are the vineyard the locals planted to save a plot of land, and the Lapin Agile, whose donkey signed a painting in 1910 that some people took entirely seriously. At the Maison Rose you hear about Germaine and Picasso's Catalan friends. By a hillside garden you discover the Mire du Nord, a hidden stone from 1736 that marked the Paris meridian. Down Rue Lepic come the windmills turned dance hall that Renoir painted, the legend of the miller nailed to the sails, told as a legend, the flat where Theo described a sky as big as the one over the Dutch dunes, and the stretch where, in 1871, the locals cut the traces of the cannon a general wanted to bring down. You finish by the Moulin Rouge in Place Blanche, a square that owes its name, like its fossil bones, to the hill's gypsum.
An outline of the walk. The full stories are in the app.
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Paris works best a neighbourhood at a time. Combine a walk, a pause and another look: the distances on the map can be deceptive.
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