Tag: Moulin de la Galette

When we’re in Paris we often stay in an apartment in Rue Lepic in Montmartre. Just across the road is a windmill called Moulin de la Galette.

It turned out this was quite an historic and well known windmill (maybe not quite as well known as the one at the foot of the hill…Le Moulin Rouge) and had been the inspiration for paintings by such artists as Van Gogh and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Le Moulin de la Galette by Vincent Van Gogh courtesy Wikiart

 

Now it’s restaurant but I can’t say what it’s like as we didn’t dine there… maybe on our next visit to Paris… but back to history. I couldn’t find out much about the windmill over the internet but I learnt that originally there were 14 mills which made up “Les Moulins de la Galette” and now there are just two. This one was built in 1622 as a wheat mill. In 1924 it was moved from its original site a bit further up the hill to its current situation at the corner of Girardon and Lepic Streets.. It made a picturesque outlook from my apartment window.