I came across this house on the narrow rue Blanche in the 9th district. It belonged to Théodore Ballu, architect of Paris's City Hall (the Hôtel de Ville, a rather wedding-cake-y building whose exterior walls hold statues of a dazzling number of famous parisians).
Looking down the street from the house, one doesn't see too much.
But walk this way for a few minutes, and...
... you see the cupola of the Sainte-Trinité, another Ballu work. It must have been quite a pleasure for Ballu to head down to the office every day.
Continue walking down rue Blanche, and the church disappears...
... until you turn right on a cross-street, and come across the church's back.
The church's front, on its square.
Somewhat unrelated to above:
When I was coming back up to the 18th district along rue Pigalle, I came across a corner from which one could simultaneously see two Montmartre icons in the distance: the Moulin Rouge and the Sacré Coeur.
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