
Whitewashed walls carved with niches, curved corners, floors covered with parquet and Provençal floor tiles, right in the middle of Montmartre. Inside, a desk, countless paintings and books, an advertisement for a convenience store television, hung with a drawing pin, pencils, scattered portraits of Brigitte Bardot and General Charles de Gaulle.
Jacques Prévert's flat at 6bis Cité Véron, in the backyard of the famous Moulin-Rouge cabaret, bright but not luxurious, which had previously always been open to the poet's famous contemporaries and anonymous friends, could soon cease to exist.