Rue Bleue

Rue Bleue
Rue Bleue is located in Paris
Rue Bleue
Location within Paris
Arrondissement9th
QuarterQuartier du Faubourg-Montmartre
Coordinates48°52′33.633″N 2°20′41.113″E / 48.87600917°N 2.34475361°E / 48.87600917; 2.34475361
FromRue du Faubourg-Poissonnière
ToRue La Fayette

The Rue Bleue is a street in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.

Origin of the name

In February 1789 Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans had the name of the street changed by a decree of the King's Council (February 19, 1789): "The Rue d'Enfer will henceforth be called the Rue Bleue, a name which will be more easily remembered than any other, given that in the same district there is one which bears the name of Rue Verte").

Another source said that the route is named after a factory making blue ballsfounded in this street in 1802.[1]

Notable places

  • No. 1: Italian terrorist Cesare Battisti lived in the building, where he was arrested in 2004.[2]
  • No. 3: Chemist and balloonist Gaston Tissandier lived there in 1899.[3]
  • Between nos. 5 and 7 is the entrance to the Cité Trévise.[4]
  • No. 9: The main campus of the fashion school MOD'SPE Paris.[5]

References

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