Montmartre and northern Paris
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Square des Batignolles

Montmartre lies in the middle of the largely petit-bourgeois and working-class 18^e arrondissement, respectable round the slopes of the hill (or Butte Montmartre), distinctly less so around Pigalle on the northern edge of the 9^e arrondissement and towards the Gare du Nord and Gare de l'Est into the 10^e arrondissement, where the colourful bazaar-like shops and depressing slums of the Goutte d'Or crowd along the rail lines. On its northern edge, across the so-called "plain of Montmartre", lies the extensive St-Ouen flea market. To the west, between avenue de Clichy and the St-Lazare train lines, is the little-explored Batignolles quartier.