Haussmann apartment blocks around a landscaped square and a market street of food shops, with the modern district where Lupin filmed a mugging beside Parc Clichy Batignolles.
What Batignolles looks like
Six storey Haussmann buildings line the streets around , cut stone facades with wrought iron balconies on the second and fifth floors and mansard roofs with skylights above the cornice line. An arched iron gate at 77 bis Rue Legendre opens onto , a private cobbled court between two more of the same blocks. Shops fill the ground floors and cars park nose to kerb along the wide straight avenues that fan out from the square.
Inside the square, paths curve through an English style layout past flowerbeds and a lawn to a pond ringed by oriental plane trees more than 140 years old. Koi carp and around three hundred ducks live in the water, and the cream stone apartment blocks show above the tree line on every side.
is closed to cars and lined with a street market several days a week. Stalls under awnings sell fruit, cheese, fish and bread the length of the block. The street opens south onto , where the same kind of stalls meet a Haussmann corner building. A second, covered market stands two streets over on Rue Lemercier.
North of the square, is a landscaped pond and an open railway cutting below glass and steel apartment towers, with lines out of Gare Saint Lazare still running through the cutting. A footbridge crosses the tracks, and the sits at the park's edge on Rue Cardinet.
Shot in Batignolles
The Netflix series Lupin used the in the opening of Season 2, Episode 4, then followed a mugging onto a street beside Parc Clichy Batignolles at 147 Rue Cardinet. Both sit within the same modern district, a few hundred metres apart across glass towers and an open rail cutting.
Lupin, 2021
A businessman is mugged for his briefcase on this stretch of Rue Cardinet in the Season 2 opening, with Parc Clichy Batignolles running alongside the street. The Pont Cardinet Metro entrance, part of the same modern development, stands about 135 metres north. Street View
What Batignolles can double for
Monserrat in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Monserrat and the blocks around Avenida de Mayo follow Haussmann's own planning principles, cut stone facades and wrought iron balconies under mansard roofs from the 1880s and 1890s. The scale of a single block is close enough to Batignolles that a corner building holds the illusion with the right lens. Buenos Aires buildings are taller and more heavily ornamented, with steeper mansards and corner turrets that Haussmann's own planners restricted in Paris, so a wide establishing shot gives the difference away faster than a tight street level frame. Try searching cut stone Haussmann facades now.
Calea Victoriei was rebuilt as a wide boulevard in the same Second Empire idiom in the late nineteenth century. Its side streets still have stone facades and wrought iron balconies under mansard roofs, the same architectural language Batignolles was built in. Calea Victoriei's ornate corner buildings and hotel facades are far more decorated than Batignolles' cut stone blocks, so keep the frame on a side street instead. Try searching stone facades wrought balconies now.
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