La Fleche d'Or (flechedor.fr) is situated in the old Charonne train station on the now unused Petite Ceinture line.
The two-year-old La REcyclerie is a bar-restaurant built inside a former railway station on the Petite Ceinture line (abandoned in 1934) that hosts free weekly conferences and workshops about sustainable initiatives.
Petite houses line the cobblestone streets, shops burst with chocolates and sweets and there's always an option to sample delicious Belgian beer in the bars.
Charonne has no particular sites to see, but many surprises, such as the old Petite Ceinture railway line which appears overhead near the busy rue des Pyrenées.
The day after we met, I walked from the Place Blanche, an important intersection in so many of Modiano's novels, up through Pigalle and across the 18th arrondissement to the newly inaugurated Promenade Dora Bruder, a walkway that runs above the overgrown tracks of the now defunct Petite Ceinture railway line, separating Rue Leibniz from Rue Belliard.
About 2.7 million years ago, two lineages arose from our bipedal ancestors: the robust australopiths, distinguished by their big heads and teeth, and the more petite-skulled Homo line.
Mini cupcakes are the new, post-Magnolia standard at bakeries like Sugar Sweet Sunshine and Spot Dessert Bar, and even nationwide at Starbucks, which began selling a line of "petite" desserts in March.
That early production starred Mary Martin, one of a long line of petite women who have played Peter, an adolescent boy who "ran away the day I was born" and lives in Neverland, a fantasy world of eternal childhood.
But since no significant free waste heat is available in Petite Martinique, the dashed lines cannot be considered here and can only denote the potential of thermal processes.
