Engraving of the houses of the place de l’Ecole Polytechnique in the 5th arrondissement of Paris seen from the rue de Montagne Sainte Geneviève with, in perspective, the bell tower of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont.

The houses lean against each other and the slightly exaggerated slope of the facades translates the poetry of this old inhabited Paris, with its smoking chimneys.

The Montagne Sainte-Geneviève was the artist’s childhood neighbourhood, when she arrived in Paris at the age of 10 in 1918.