Square du Docteur-Grancher - Paris (France)

Square du Docteur-Grancher 09/01/2024 09h41
A winter morning in the 20th arrondissement of Paris in a small park square. A temperature of -2 degrees and some light snow.

Square du Docteur-Grancher
Square du Docteur-Grancher is a square in the 20ème arrondissement of Paris in the quartier Père-Lachaise near the station Gambetta of lines 3 and 3bis.
The square is located in the middle of the space defined by rue de la Bidasoa, rue Orfila, place Martin-Nadaud, rue Sorbier and rue Villiers-de-L'Isle-Adam.
Its name was given to it in homage to the pediatrician Jacques-Joseph Grancher (1843-1907).
Historically, the square was created in the form of an inaccessible embankment overlooked by an urban block comprising three streets1:
rue de la Voulzie, parallel to rue de la Bidasoa, starting at rue Villiers-de-L'Isle-Adam and ending with a small staircase leading to rue Orfila,
rue Westermann, parallel to rue Orfila, beginning at rue de la Voulzie and forming a right angle with it,
rue de la Cloche, parallel to rue de la Bidasoa, starting rue Westermann and returning to rue Villiers-de-L'Isle-Adam. Its name comes from the fontis on which the islet is built.
It should be noted that the Square du Docteur-Grancher is located just vertically above the Charonne tunnel (1,308 meters) of the Petite Ceinture line railway.
The unstable subsoil of the premises made the urban block uninhabitable which was finally demolished, the three streets and the vacated land left fallow and condemned. The basement was stabilized much later thanks to concrete injections.
The square was the subject of major redevelopment and expansion work for an inauguration in 2006. The wasteland of the former urban block was added to the square where the influence of the three old streets was symbolized by paving three new paths with plaques recalling their names. The staircase leading to Orfila Street has been renovated. A new access to the square has been created at rue Sorbier in the form of a staircase on the hillside leading to the former rue de la Cloche. The embankment itself was redone (correction of the slope and demolition of the retaining walls of Sorbier and Orfila streets).
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Taken on: January 9, 2024

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