MONOPOLY Paris ...

Monopoly has been teaching children since 1935 how to make a fortune by buying land and building houses. The game was created during the Depression by an unemployed engineer who made a fortune from it. The French game with the streets of Paris was created in 1936, in the middle of the Popular Front, quite a paradox!


It was while I was walking around the 7th arrondissement that the name of the Avenue de Breteuil was suddenly associated with the green card so highly valued by the players of Monopoly. So what if we stroll like we're on a Monopoly board? Come on, the dice are rolling!

I remember that in ‘Monopoly’, 

avenue de Breteuil is green, avenue Henri-Martin is red and avenue Mozart is orange...

I remember .... by Georges Pérec

As in Monopoly, we move from street to street as the dice fall. 


  • The first tour of the board takes us from Rue du Départ to Rue de la Paix. There's also a bit of cheating involved to get the most out of the moves.

  • The second tour of the board keeps us in the nice neighbourhoods and the walk is shorter between rue de la Paix and rue Lafayette.

  • The last tour of the board takes us through very different Parisian districts, a somewhat erratic exercise in style that shows how the distance between two squares has nothing to do with the actual distance between two streets. The walk that ends, of course, at La Santé prison. 
Map Monopoly -  Vincent Périat

Map of Paris Monopoly (R) - From the useful and funny Atlas inutile de Paris by Vincent Périat

From Departure (rue du Départ) to Rue de la Paix


 15th district:


  • Rue du Départ - Avenue de Breteuil - Rue Lecourbe - Gare Montparnasse
    Rue de Vaugirard and then through the district up north and cross Seine river at pont de Grenelle

 16th district:

  • Avenue Mozart - Avenue Henri Martin - Avenue de Neuilly - Avenue Foch 

 8th, 9th and 2nd districts:

  • Avenue des Champs Elysées - Avenue Matignon  - rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
  • Boulevard des Capucines - rue de la Paix

From rue de Courcelles to rue Lafayette


17th district: 


  • Rue de Courcelles (coming from rue de la Paix) - Boulevard Malesherbes - 

 8ème, 2ème et 9ème arrondissements: 


  • Gare Saint-Lazare - Place de la Bourse - Rue Lafayette

 

Stroll Paris Monopoly

From rue Lafayette to La Santé prison 


 9th and 10ème arrondissements 


  • Rue Lafayette - Place Pigalle - Gare du Nord - Rue de Paradis


    11th arrondissement:


    • Boulevard de Belleville - Avenue de la République - Boulevard de la Villette


     12th, 6th and 14th arrondissements: 


    • Gare de Lyon - Boulevard Saint-Michel - Prison de la Santé 
    promenade monopoly pigalle Belleville Santé

    Texte / Photos : Martine Combes

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