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Belleville, from the Boulevard to the Viewpoint
Where two streets meet, you'll hear how the Commune ended, with one man alone on a barricade and a young volunteer nurse nobody ever saw again.
Revolutions, Uprisings and the Commune in Paris: audio walks
Where and how did Paris rise up, from the Fronde to 1968?
10 walks with different starting points and stories. Compare their maps, stops and duration, then choose where to begin.
Explore these walksParis's revolutions happened in different places and didn't always demand the same things. This theme follows revolts and episodes of the Commune without merging them into a single image of barricades. The walks bring major dates down to squares, neighbourhoods and people: who rose up, what they challenged and how the city remembers them.
In “Saint-Germain, Luxembourg and Odéon”: You start on the terraces of the Flore and Les Deux Magots and cross to the oldest church in Paris, which, tradition has it, was founded to keep a tunic brought from Zaragoza; inside lies Descartes, whom the Revolution wanted to move to the Panthéon.
In “Belleville, from the Boulevard”: Where two streets meet, you'll hear how the Commune ended, with one man alone on a barricade and a young volunteer nurse nobody ever saw again.
In “Latin Quarter”: You start in front of the faculty that stands on the site of Marat's house and beside the refectory where the Cordeliers Club met.
Choose from 10 independent walks in Paris. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.
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Latin Quarter: from Marat's House to Shakespeare and Company
You start in front of the faculty that stands on the site of Marat's house and beside the refectory where the Cordeliers Club met.
Montmartre, the Hill of the Martyrs: from the Bateau-Lavoir to the Summit
You start in the place Émile-Goudeau, outside Picasso's Bateau-Lavoir, and hear how two small Iberian heads stolen from the Louvre ended up leading the police to his friend Apollinaire, and Picasso himself to an interrogation.
The Palais-Royal and the Place des Victoires
You start in the Place des Victoires, the square a marshal paid for out of his own pocket to the greater glory of Louis XIV, with lanterns lit all night, and which the Revolution left with a near-naked general hidden behind scaffolding.
The Père-Lachaise of Memory: from Oscar Wilde to the Communards' Wall
You start at the crematorium, the first in Paris, in front of an urn that no longer holds anything.
The Revolution on the Rue Saint-Honoré
You start at the end: the steps of Saint-Roch, where a young general called Bonaparte brought the Revolution to a close with cannon fire.
Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the Luxembourg and the Odéon
You start on the terraces of the Flore and Les Deux Magots and cross to the oldest church in Paris, which, tradition has it, was founded to keep a tunic brought from Zaragoza; inside lies Descartes, whom the Revolution wanted to move to the Panthéon.
The Eiffel Tower and the Champ de Mars
You walk down to the bridge where, in 1937, the pavilions of Germany and the USSR stared each other down, with Republican Spain and Guernica close by, and you cross the bridge that Louis XVIII vowed to defend from Prussian mines.
From Vendôme to the Opera
Then the column made of cannon, pulled down by the Commune and charged to Courbet, and the house where Chopin died.
From Saint-Paul to the Bastille by the Place des Vosges
You finish in front of the column that stands where a plaster elephant once stood.
Paris, before you go
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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