Butte aux Cailles--Paris

This is a corner of the little square at the center of Butte aux Cailles--a neighborhood adjacent to ours in Paris 13e. It was the first sunny day in over a week, and it being Sunday, everyone was out. View it large--a quintessentially Parisian scene, with bits of the artistic graffitti that are everywhere around--I saw a good half-dozen photographers who seemed to be concentrating on that. There are two fragments of Paris's characteristic street lamps, and the green-rimmed cross above a pharmacy in the upper left.

Butte aux Cailles means "hill of quails"; the sector is mildly hilly, and in fact is named after Pierre Caille, a major proprietor in the 16th century. It's clearly named on the map and I've marked the exact location.

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