Square de la Rue Hélène

The Square de la Rue Hélène is a small, quiet pocket of green tucked behind high stone walls that hide the street noise of the seventeenth arrondissement. It sits on land that once belonged to a convent, but by the mid-twentieth century, it became a necessary patch of relief for the neighborhood. A bronze statue of the poet Auguste Lacaussade stands here, marking the space as a corner dedicated to literature and those who sought a moment of silence away from the nearby construction.