Inaugurated in 1889, the emblematic Café de l'Horloge will quickly become, like its direct competitor the Café du Printemps, the meeting place for athletes and an essential stage of the races that animate the boulevards. Since the Saint-Genès barrier, it is also an entire district that has been built between shops and biscuit factory, worker housing and industry, shops and workshops… to (re)discover as you walk.