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Paris is the capital and largest city of France and is also the capital of the Île-de-France région, which encompasses Paris and its suburbs.

I found this statue in a walk to Montmartre in Paris.

The name "Montmartre" comes from "Mont des Martyrs" (the bishop St. Denis, the priest Rustique, and the archdeacon Eleuthère were all decapitated there around the year 250). In the 12th century, Benedictine monks built a monastery near Rue des Abesses. It later became the seat of a powerful abbey.

The statue is named "passe-muraille" (Place Marcel Aymé at Montmartre)... it is based on a novell by Marcel Aymé, published in 1943, that tells the story of a modest employee of administration which suddenly got the ability of passing through the walls. It uses its gift until the day when he loses its capacity and remains blocked inside a wall.