On the Streets of Paris, rue Poulbot in Montmartre.

Rue Poulbot, Montmartre, cafés spilling onto the cobbles beneath a clear Paris sky.

Tucked away on the slopes of Montmartre, is a street that still feels closely tied to its past. Small cafés line the cobbles, chairs edging toward the roadway, as locals and visitors pass through at an unhurried pace.

The street takes its name from Francisque Poulbot, the illustrator whose affectionate drawings of working-class Parisian children became widely known in the early twentieth century. Those children came to be called poulbots, a word that remains closely linked with Montmartre’s popular history.

Today, the setting has changed, yet the narrow scale of the street, the shopfronts, and the everyday life unfolding here still echo that earlier Paris.

*Good article here dedicated to the remarkable ceramics of Poulbot, on rue Damrémont.

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