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Belleville (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a neighbourhood of Paris, France, parts of which lie in four different arrondissements.The major portion of Belleville straddles the borderline between the 20th arrondissement and the 19th along its main street, the Rue de Belleville.
These include: the convents des Blancs-Manteaux, de Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie and des Carmes-Billettes, as well as the church of Sainte-Catherine-du-Val-des-Écoliers . During the mid-13th century, Charles I of Anjou , King of Naples and Sicily, and brother of King Louis IX of France built his residence near the current n°7 rue de ...
The rue de la Gaité in Montparnasse was the site of many of the great music-hall theatres, in particular the famous "Bobino". Great artists performed at the Bobino Nightclub. On their stages, using then-popular single name pseudonyms or one birth name only, Damia , Kiki , Mayol and Georgius , sang and performed to packed houses.
American-born jazz singer Adelaide Hall lived in Pigalle in 1937–1938 and opened her nightclub La Grosse Pomme ("the Big Apple") at 73 Rue Pigalle. [6] Other nightclubs in Rue Pigalle during the late 1930s included the Moon Rousse and Caravan, where Django Reinhardt played. [7] It was the home of the Grand Guignol theatre, which closed in ...
Meanwhile, the oldest but smallest Asian neighborhood in Paris is located in the 3rd arrondissement, near the Musée des Arts et Métiers. It is bounded roughly by Rue au Maire , Rue Volta, Rue du Temple and Rue des Gravilliers. The district was established in the early 1900s, when Chinese migrants specializing in the leather and Chinese ...
Construction of Hôtel de Salm, 1787.Paris, Musée Carnavalet. Exposition Universelle in 1889, the entrance arch is known as the Eiffel Tower. During the 17th century, French high nobility started to move from the central Marais, the then-aristocratic district of Paris where nobles used to build their urban mansions [5] (see Hotel de Soubise), to the clearer, less populated and less polluted ...
The Paris Jazz Festival centers on concerts at the Bois de Vincennes park in the eastern part of the city. The Paris Summer Arts Festival brings free music, dance, art, and other cultural events to the streets of the city. La Goutte d'Or en Fête held the first week of July, is a rap and reggae music festival.
The Quartier de La Chapelle (French pronunciation: [kaʁtje də la ʃapɛl]) is a neighborhood of Paris, in the eastern part of the 18th arrondissement.It was originally the village of La Chapelle on the outskirts of Paris and a commune in its own right, separated from the commune of Paris by the wall of the Farmers-General.