This magnificent painted canvas takes us back more than a century earlier, on the banks of the fortifications at the Porte du Pré Saint-Gervais, in the green and industrial landscape that was the Zône, the territory forced by the army that hatched Paris by the walls of Thiers since 1840. This historical look of Paris seen from Pré Saint Gervais, Portes de Chaumont, Pantin and La Villette was captured by the artist of bastion n°21 and following with the Brunet, Chaumont, Pantin and La Villette doors.