This itinerary (just below the boulevards Clichy and Rochechouart) includes streets most tourists miss and, thus, at the same time, miss experiencing the studios of Degas and Renoir; the shop where Vincent and Bernard bought their art supplies (usually on credit) and where Vincent first met Cézanne who uttered to Vincent's face his classic statement that Vincent's works looked like they'd been painted by a madman; the birthplace of Gauguin (Vincent's artistic idol); the studio of Delacroix (one of Vincent's favorite painters and theorists); the homes of the lovers George Sand and Chopin (only a courtyard away from each other); the two apartments in the same complex in the cité Pigalle where Theo lived happily with his new wife, Johanna, and their new baby named after Vincent. The reader learns this happiness was brief, lasting barely a year-and-a-half because Theo suffered a complete mental breakdown, dying just six months after Vincent.

The walk then passes the ornate building in rue Chaptal where Vincent first worked as a young art dealer for Goupil & Cie (a family-related art firm) and then moves on a few doors away to the Musée de la Vie romantique, (a feast for the eyes) where salons were held frequented by George Sand, Chopin, Liszt, Delacroix and Dickens. The house originally belonged to the Dutch painter Ary Scheffer-an artist Vincent highly admired and whose works Goupil conveniently handled. It now houses personal belongings not only of Scheffer, but also Sand (Vincent mentions a romance of hers in his letters).

The walk ends at an experimental theatre where Vincent was asked to exhibit his paintings during his last few months in Paris and with a poignant statement by Aurier (the man we first met in Walk 1.)