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ÉVASION
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2
1. Les maisonnettes de
poupées de la villa
Léandre
2. et 3. Autour d’une
cour arborée et pavée,
les quarante
maisonnettes
mitoyennes forment la
“Petite Alsace”.
explosive as it is refreshing. Retracing your steps
a little, stand under the porch of number 10, Rue
Daviel, which gently slopes down to Rue
Vergniaud; from there you will be able to see the
whole of Petite Alsace. In 1912, forty small, semidetached
houses with half-timbering inspired by
traditional Alsatian homes sprung up around a
paved, tree-lined courtyard. They were designed
for working families that could number up to
twelve per household. This was one of the first
garden cities in Paris.
The city in the countryside
de là, on a une vue d’ensemble sur la “Petite
Alsace”. Autour d’une cour arborée et pavée,
quarante maisonnettes mitoyennes à colombages
inspirées de l’habitat traditionnel alsacien sont
sorties de terre en 1912. Elles étaient destinées à
des familles ouvrières
pouvant aller jusqu’à
douze personnes par
foyer. Ce fut l’une des
premières cités-jardins de
Paris.
La ville
à la campagne
Le promeneur ressent ce même sentiment
d’apaisement en remontant la jolie ruelle qui
départage les ateliers d’artistes et les maisonnettes
de poupées de la Villa de l’Ermitage, à la lisière des
XX e et XI e arrondissements. En 1857, date de
construction de l’impasse, les immeubles avaient
été conçus pour ne jamais dépasser trois étages.
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...ces maisonettes
étaient destinées à des
familles ouvrières
pouvant aller jusqu’à
douze personnes...
As you walk, you will have the very same feeling
of calm when you go up the pretty little street
that includes the artists’ studios and little dolls’
houses of the Villa de l’Ermitage, on the border of
the 20 th and 11 th arrondissements. In 1857, the year
the cul-de sac was built, buildings were never
more than three floors high. In the heart of
historic Belleville, the
impression of ‘the city in
the countryside’ is
predominant. This Villa
de l’Ermitage is like green
confetti, a reminder of a
long-gone district, with
its broken-down shacks,
its craft shops and its
Auvergne bistros. The
Villa gaily snakes along for 150 metres to rejoin
the tiny Cité Leroy and its shared garden with a
sign announcing that entrance is as ‘free as air’.
Like in Impasse Daviel, the vegetation makes the
place magnificent. If an impressive Lebanese
cedar towers over discussions in the middle of the
avenue, rose trees, Virginia creepers, magnolias
and cherry trees also stay green all year round.
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