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A La Mère Catherine was a favourite eating MONTMARTRE
place of Russian Cossacks in 1814. They would
bang on the table and shout “Bistro!” (Russian
for “quick”) – hence the Paris bistro was born.
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Locator Map
See Central Paris Map pp16–17
Key

Suggested route

RUE ST-VINCENT

1 . Sacré-Coeur
This Romano-
Byzantine church,
RUE
started in the 1870s and
CORTOT
completed in 1914, has
many treasures, such
as this figure of Christ
RUE DU MONT CENIS P A E R E B L
RUE ST-RUSTIQUE RUE DU CHEVALIER RUE LAMARCK L U T by Eugène Benet (1911).
N O R V I N S
PL DU PARVAIS U R A
DU SACRE-
G U I B E R T
COEUR
RUE DU CARDINAL
RUE AZAIS
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RUE DU
CARDINAL DUBOIS
S T - E L E U T H E R E
R U E G A B R I E L L E
RUE DREVET R E I D O
S Q
W I L L E T T E N H 2 St-Pierre de Montmartre
R U E B E R T H E
C This church became the Temple
E E of Reason during the Revolution.
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R P L S T - P I E R R E
R U E T A R D I E U STEINKERQUE
RUE DE
Square Willette lies below
the parvis (forecourt) of
The funiculaire, or cable Sacré-Coeur. It is laid out 7 Halle Saint Pierre
railway, at the end of Rue Foyatier on the side of the hill in a The museum hosts exhibitions
takes you to the foot of the series of descending terraces of Art Brut and Naïve Art. This oil
basilica of Sacré-Coeur. Metro with lawns, shrubs, trees painting, L’Opéra de Paris (1986),
tickets are valid on it. and flowerbeds. is by L Milinkov.

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