square de la place de la Réunion

The Square de la Réunion features a central fountain basin surrounded by a dense cluster of mature trees. This small park sits on land that once belonged to the village of Charonne, a rural commune independent from Paris until eighteen sixty. In eighteen seventy-one, during the brief and violent rise of the Paris Commune, local residents gathered here to debate their revolutionary goals. The square remains a quiet patch of green where the old stone walls of the neighborhood still press against the perimeter.