Paris for the Holidays

Places (Squares) de Paris

Posted on October 20, 2019 Updated on March 1, 2022

Places in Paris are seldom square
They are usually a circular confluence of streets (rues)
Often centered (and defined) by a monument

Place de Clichy
Junction of 8th, 9th, 17th, and 18th Arrondisements

Monument: Moncey, prominent soldier in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars
(one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 33)

Book: Murder in Clichy (Cara Black)