Lucien La Chance

Montmartre & Northern Paris


For a taste of old-world Paris, linger over a glass of vin naturel (natural wine) at this delightfully retro wine bar with wooden bistro tables between bottle-filled shelves. French-style tapas, to be shared among the table, enhances the gourmet experience: mushrooms with hazelnuts and lemon confit, seared octopus with mint purée, smoked herring with green apple and pomegranate…


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Nearby Montmartre & Northern Paris attractions

1. Le Bal

0.08 MILES

Contemporary photography exhibits feature at this two-floor gallery, which has an excellent bookshop and an Austrian cafe, Otto. Watch for film screenings…

2. Cimetière de Montmartre

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This 11-hectare cemetery opened in 1825. It contains the graves of writers Émile Zola (whose ashes are now in the Panthéon), Alexandre Dumas fils and…

3. Musée de la Vie Romantique

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Framed by green shutters, this mansion where painter Ary Scheffer once lived sits in a cobbled courtyard at the end of a tree-shaded alley. The objects…

4. Playground Duperré

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Looking more like a dramatic street-art installation, Paris' 'most beautiful basketball court' was redone in 2017 by Parisian design studio Ill-Studio in…

5. Moulin Blute Fin

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Sister windmill to surviving Moulin Radet on the same street, this abandoned 18th-century windmill ground flour on its hillock perch above rue Lepic. It…

6. Moulin Radet

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One of 12 windmills that dotted the hill of Montmartre in the mid-18th century, Moulin Radet is one of just two remaining today. The Radet windmill dates…

7. Le Bateau Lavoir

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In the late 19th century and early 20th century impoverished artists Max Jacob, Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso – who painted Les Demoiselles d…

8. Le Passe-Muraille

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Just north of Montmartre's famous windmills, on place Marcel Aymé, watch a man pop out of a stone wall. Created by artist Jean Marais in 1989, the…