Monday, January 9, 2006

Place du Tertre

Signs and plaques, Place du Tertre, Montmartre, Paris

Signs and plaques
Place du Tertre, Montmartre
Quartier de Clignancourt, 18th arrondissement
Paris, July 2005

“The Place du Tertre is a square in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France. Only a few streets away from Montmartre's Basilica of the Sacré Cœur and the Lapin Agile, it is near the summit of the city's elevated Montmartre quarter. Place du Tertre was the heart of the prestigious Benedictine Montmartre Abbey, established in 1133 by King Louis VI. Montmartre Abbey thrived through the centuries and until the French revolution under the patronage of the Kings of France. Place du Tertre was opened to the public in 1635 as Montmartre village central square. From the end of the 18th century until World War One, the whole Montmartre Boheme could be seen here: painters, songwriters and poets.” (Place du Tertre, Wikipedia)

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