square du docteur Antoine-Béclère

The square du docteur Antoine-Béclère carries a singular bronze bust of a man with a heavy mustache, peering toward the surrounding apartment blocks. Antoine Béclère became a pioneer of radiology in France, hauling primitive X-ray equipment to the front lines during the First World War to locate bullets and shrapnel in wounded soldiers. This patch of green exists to honor his service, keeping the memory of a physician who spent his career exposing the invisible realities inside the human body.