Square Charles Péguy

Square Charles Péguy is marked by the rusted, weathered rails of the former Petite Ceinture railway line that still cut through its center. This park replaced a sprawling industrial rail depot that once bustled with freight trains circling Paris. In the nineteen eighties, the city transformed the abandoned tracks into this sunken, wooded garden. A young man named Charles Péguy, a poet who died in the first days of the Great War, gives the park his name. The steel tracks remain underfoot.