Place Saint Charles

Place Saint Charles serves as a public square, defined by the low, grey stone walls that wrap around its central green space. It sits on land once held by the Saint-Charles school, which occupied this corner for decades before the city cleared the structures to make room for local residents. A bronze bust of the nineteenth-century poet and critic Charles Baudelaire keeps watch over the paths here, a quiet reminder of his deep ties to this neighborhood during his early years.