Suzanne Buisson square, created in 1951. It contains a statue of Saint-Denis.

Suzanne Buisson was a heroine of the resistance.

François Girardon (1628 - 1715) was a sculptor, in particular he made the tomb of Richelieu in the chapel of the Sorbonne.

The legend of Saint Denis, the first bishop of Paris, appeared around the year 475 when Saint Genevieve built a basilica in the place of his supposed death (where is the current basilica of Saint Denis).

Towards 820, the abbot of Saint Denis strengthened legend: Saint Denis was beheaded in 258. He would have picked up his head, climbed the hill, washed his head to a source (now Square Suzanne Buisson, rue Girardon, stands his statue), and would have gone to Saint Denis before collapsing dead ....! That is why Saint Denis is always depicted wearing his head.