Author, documentarian and Paris native Thierry Secretan takes you beyond the Sacre-Coeur crowds to discover the authentic spirit of Montmartre. “What inspires me most about Paris is the irreverence of its people, its unruliness,” Thierry says. “Paris is a town always on the brink of rebellion.” The first shots of the 1871 Paris Commune were fired in Montmartre, and Thierry’s great-grandfather was a message runner during the fighting; later he cofounded the literary journal of legendary cabaret Le Chat Noir.