A monument to the French writer Marcel aimé in Montmartre looks very unusual: a two-meter bronze sculpture only partially peeking out from the stone wall of the head, upper torso, right arm, right leg and left wrist. This is brush polished hands countless tourists: legend says that the handshake of the monument brings good luck.

Marcel aimé (1902-1967) is not too well known in Russia, but France knows him as an outstanding writer and playwright. His creative legacy is enormous: 17 novels, plays, short stories, tales, movie scripts.

In 1943 Aime wrote one of his most famous stories – "a Person walking through walls". The hero of the story, modest official of Dutiel, lived in Montmartre. He was wonderful that you had the gift to easily pass through walls. In the story of Dutiel first uses his gift in order to punish the head-Hama, then Rob banks, and then picks an affair with a beautiful woman, who locks the house by a jealous husband. When the officer leaves the bedroom lover, gift him disappears, and he remains immured in the wall forever.

A monument in Paris that is fashioned by the famous actor Jean Marais, created on motives of this particular story, but the sculpture is attached to a portrait likeness with the appearance of the writer. Jean Mare decided this work: Marcel aimé he had a long close friendship. The actor possessed a variety of talents, but especially gravitated toward sculpture. Pablo Picasso, having studied the works of Mare wondered how someone with so much talent wasting his time on some shooting film and working in the theatre".

Monument to Marcel Aime appeared in Paris in 1989. The installation location was not chosen randomly: the writer as hero of his story, lived in the famous quarter for more than forty years. Square, on the corner of which is a sculpture, now called by his name.