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Starting point and access: Louise Michel metro station.
- Metro – Line 3. Take Exit 2 onto Rue Anatole France.
To avoid having to go back and forth between sections, the artworks are listed directly in the description, identified simply by their title in italics. Where a photograph of the artwork in question has been taken, a link has been provided.
(S) At the top of the escalator, turn 180° and follow Rue Anatole France towards a roundabout. Once you reach the roundabout, turn right into Rue Jacques Ibert. Take thesecond right, Rue Danton. At the corner of a public garden, note on the left, each at a window, Françoise Dolto and the singer Carlos (her son).
Immediately afterwards, turn left into Square Danton. Turn left straight away towards a makeshift guardhouse where Bourvil welcomes you. Then walk past a large animal mural: giraffes and hippos, a lion and an elephant, etc. Continue round the square clockwise and exit onto Rue Danton.
(1) Follow the street to the left and cross Rue Louise Michel. Take the next left onto Rue Marceau, then thefirst right onto Rue Camille Desmoulins. At the end, turn left onto Rue Louis Rouquier, then immediately right onto Rue Chaptal.
At the next junction, turn left onto Rue Aristide Briand. At the end, turn right onto Rue de Villiers. You will pass Rue Barbès on your right, followed by Rue Voltaire.
(2) Immediately afterwards, you’ll pass Rue de l’Aspirant Dargent and, about twenty metres further on, at the entrance to a car park, you’ll see a mural depicting Venice on the right. Continue for a few more metres and turn right into Square Jean-Pierre Gratzer to get a full view of the mural.
Retrace your steps back to the junction with Rue de l’Aspirant Dargent.
(2) Then follow this street to the left. At the end, turn right into Rue Chaptal. At the next junction, turn left into Rue Voltaire. On the left-hand side, at No. 19, if you turn round, you’ll see a boy and a girl at the window. Shortly afterwards, look out for a scene featuring figures on a staircase.
At the next junction, turn left onto Rue Danton and walk between a secondary school (on the left) and a primary school (on the right). At the corner of the primary school, turn right onto Rue Bara (a pedestrian street). At the end, turn left. At the next junction, turn right onto Rue Kléber. Cross Rue Anatole France and continue straight ahead.
At the T-junction, note a building on the left whose façade creates an illusion of depth. Then turn right onto Rue Carnot. Admire a hot-air balloon on the right-hand side. Cross Rue Voltaire and continue straight on for about fifty metres.
(3) Turn left onto Rue Hoche. At the end of the street, look out for a neighbour at the window on your right. Then turn left and, at the corner at the rear of the Town Hall, go through a small gate on your right. Walk along the right-hand side of the Town Hall and, at the corner, turn right. When you reach the entrance, turn left. Cross a street and go straight on into a pedestrianised street.
Cross Rue du Président Wilson and note a portrait of General de Gaulle high up on the left. Continue along the avenue named after him and pass the monument to the martyrs of the Second World War. You’ll then notice, on the right-hand side, a trompe-l’oeil where reflections of the landscape appear in the windows.
Then turn right onto Rue Rivay. Continue straight on and cross Rue Aristide Briand, then Rue Louis Rouquier. At the end, first turn right then left to take Rue Louis Blanc. Then enter Parc Gustave Eiffel.
(4) At the junction, turn left and look out for the Eiffel Tower on your left (largely obscured by vegetation), followed by the Statue of Liberty. Walk alongside the buildings on your right and, at the crossroads, turn left between the flowerbeds. At the next junction, carry on straight ahead. Note the windows high up on the right and the Garabit Viaduct. Continue straight ahead and leave the park.
You’ll come out onto Rue Jean Jaurès; follow it to the right. Cross Rue Jules Guesde and, immediately afterwards, go through a small gate on the right to enter Impasse Genouville. At the entrance to Youri Gagarine Park, turn round and look at the hanging garden. Then retrace your steps and go through the gate again.
Follow Rue Jean Jaurès to the right. After about fifty metres, turn round to look at the trompe-l’oeil featuring a fountain (behind the portico). Continue along Rue Jean Jaurès. At No. 89, turn left, walk past a florist’s, and turn left again into Rue Louis Rouquier.
(5) After a few dozen metres, turn right into Square Édith de Villepin (with steps and a clock on the right). Follow a tarmac path, cross a bridge, continue along the tarmac and leave the square. Cross Rue Aristide Briand and continue opposite along Rue Raspail.
At Place Jean Zay, turn left onto Rue Pierre Brossolette. After about fifty metres, turn right and enter Square Marjolin. At the Fork in the road immediately ahead, take the right-hand path and walk past a playground on your left. At a junction, go straight on and, at the end of the path, leave the square.
Then turn right onto Rue Camille Pelletan. At number 26, admire a reimagined version of Romeo and Juliet. At the next junction, turn left onto Rue Raspail. At the next junction, note the yellow house on the right.
Then turn left onto Rue Paul Vaillant-Couturier. Continue straight on and note, on the left-hand side, a waterfall at No. 66, a portico at No. 64, and flower-filled balconies at No. 58. Continue straight on, crossing Rue Édouard Vaillant, Rue Rivay and, at the traffic lights, Rue du Président Wilson.
(6) Then enter the Parc de la Planchette. Opposite a white building, turn left and go through another gate. Immediately afterwards, take the winding path on the right which runs alongside a flowerbed with an arbour on the left-hand side. At the junction, turn right. Shortly afterwards, on a concrete path, turn right and pass a children’s playground on your left.
At a fork in the road (bust of Louis Rouquier), turn right. Go round the roundabout featuring a sculpture in honour of the aviator Maryse Hilsz, and continue straight ahead, passing a white gatehouse on your left. At the next junction, go straight on, passing a pond on your left, and take the park exit on the right.
Follow Rue des Marronniers (pedestrianised) and note the windows of a block of flats on your left. Then rejoin Rue Paul Vaillant-Couturier and follow it to the left. At the junction, go straight on.
At the next junction, turn right onto Rue Anatole France. After about fifty metres, look back to your left to see a woman on her balcony. Continue along Rue Anatole France and you’ll soon come to the entrance to Pont de Levallois – Bécon metro station (E).
To get back home:
- Metro – Line 3.
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