Square Maurice Gardette

Square Maurice Gardette occupies the footprint of what used to be the Saint-Maur slaughterhouses. In the eighteen hundreds, this corner of the eleventh arrondissement was defined by the pens and the butchery trade. When city planners cleared the site in eighteen seventy-two, they replaced the slaughtering pens with gravel paths, flowerbeds, and a central bronze fountain. A stone plaque near the gate remembers Maurice Gardette, a local resistance fighter caught and executed by the Gestapo during the occupation of nineteen forty-four.