From Notre-Dame Church in Deuil to Dino Park in Montmorency

Departure from Place des Victimes du V2 (or Place de l'Église) in Deuil-la-Barre. Please note: there are few parking spaces for cars, but there is a bus stop for line 256 nearby (Église de Deuil stop).

(S/E) Head west on Rue Camelot, then left onto Rue de l'Église and left again onto Rue de la Barre. Enter Winston Churchill Park on the right and walk through it until you reach the Sentier des Coquins exit. Walk up Sentier des Coquins until you reach the street of the same name. Turn left onto it.
At the end of the street, turn right onto Rue des Vergers, then left onto Rue des Mathouzines.

(1) Then cross the street and continue straight ahead along Sentier de la Sablonnière, which is well signposted and lined with trees. It is steep on its final stretch before leading to Rue du Panorama. Turn left onto this street (which borders Montmorency). At the end of the street, climb the embankment on the right to take the pedestrian crossing on Avenue Charles de Gaulle, just in front of the entrance to Parc de Dino.

(2) Go through the gate and walk through the park to the gate known as Porte de Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

(3) Take the path that gently climbs to the left in the park, near the surrounding wall and along Rue Saint Denis. Once you are back near Avenue Charles de Gaulle, take the wooden ramp on the right to descend into a French garden. At the bottom of the ramp and on the right is the 18th-century Fontaine de la Rocaille fountain. Leave Parc de Dino via the Porte Rouge exit opposite the fountain. After crossing Avenue Charles de Gaulle, take a few steps to the right.

(4) Turn left onto Sentier de la Porte Rouge and cross a densely wooded area. As you emerge from the undergrowth, the path turns slightly to the right and offers an unobstructed view of the capital. At the signpost, turn left onto a path leading to Rue du Beau Site. Take it to the right downhill. Then turn left onto Sentier Trousse Vaches (marked by a sign) and enter a wooded area. At the end of this path, join the Sablonnière path, which you took on the way there. Take it to the right for 100 metres until you reach Rue des Mathouzines, which you passed on the way there.

(1) Go down Rue du Crochet on the left, then take Rue Haute slightly to the left. Then turn right onto Rue de l'Église. Pass in front of the Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Eugène Church, a listed historical monument. Turn left after the church to return to Place des Victimes du V2 (S/E).

Around the start and finish points, you will find restaurants, a bakery, a pharmacy and a brewery.

(2) Visit Dino Park in Montmorency: it was in this park that the house of Charles Le Brun (painter to King Louis XIV) was built in the 17th century, followed by the Château de Pierre Crozat in the 18th century.
Today, only the gate through which Jean-Jacques Rousseau escaped arrest before fleeing to Switzerland and the Rocaille Fountain remain. The Orangery of the Château de Crozat still exists, but is now outside the park. Le Brun's house and the Château de Crozat have been destroyed.
The current castle of the Duke of Dino was built in the 19th century between 1879 and 1885 by a banker, Isaac Léopold Sée. It only became the residence of the Duke of Dino in 1886.
Note: signs installed in the park provide visitors with information about the history of the site.
(3) The Jean Jacques Rousseau Gate: it was through this gate in the surrounding wall that Jean-Jacques Rousseau fled in 1762 to escape arrest by parliament following the publication of L'Émile.
(S/E) A visit to the Church of Our Lady in Deuil is recommended.