Montmartre by Chansons

This is a postscript to last week’s post. A postscript appears in order because more songs have been written about Montmartre than about any other part of Paris, and rather than leaving out all but one or two of them (in order to preserve some sort of balance,) it appeared the better choice to dedicate an entire post to Montmartre by chansons, singing about the streets, the charms and the legends of La Butte (which is how Parisians call the “mountain of martyrs” on the…