The Place de la Contrescarpe is a square in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. The Place de la Contrescarpe is located along the Rue Mouffetard, at the...

restaurants, shops, and cafés, and a regular open market. It is centered on the Place de la Contrescarpe, at the junction of the Rue Mouffetard and the Rue de Lacepede...

each corner forming a star fort with ramparts and a dry moat. Along the Contrescarpe there was a palisade. The bridge over the moat could be withdrawn. Inside...

most famous cabaret of the time was the Pomme de pin, on place de la Contrescarpe in the 5th arrondissement. It was regularly visited by poet Pierre de...

down without being fired on, since the machine-gun bunkers (coffres de contrescarpe) at each corner of the ditch had been left unmanned. The German parties...

first public concert she gave was a spontaneous one in the Place de la Contrescarpe, in the bohemian district of Moufetard in Paris, where some young people...

Faussebraye with another breastwork; then the escarpe wall; the wet moat; the contrescarpe; and finally a glacis, partially palisaded on top. The pentagonal bastions...