Boulevard de Rochechouart

The Boulevard de Rochechouart is situated at the foot of Montmartre hill and to its south. Like the neighbouring street it is named after Marguerite de Rochechouart de Montpipeau (1665-1727), abbess of Montmartre. It is a result of the 1864 merging of the boulevards and chemins de ronde which followed the interior and exterior of the mur des Fermiers Généraux. It has also been known as the "boulevard des Poissonniers", "chemin de ronde de Poissonnière" and "chemin de ronde de Rochechouart". It is served by the Paris Metro stations Pigalle and Anvers.

ites

* At n°15, former site of the "théâtre de la Gaîté-Rochechouart".
* At n°29, a pied-à-terre of the painter Gustave Caillebotte.
* n°45, site of the old Montmartre abattoir, then the collège Rollin (1876) and today the lycée Jacques-Decour.
* n°55, former hôtel of the painter Ernest Hébert. The revenues from it now fund the Musée Hébert de la Tronche and the Musée national Ernest Hébert de Paris ["Ernest Hébert, Entre romantisme et symbolisme, 1817-1908", under the direction of Laurence Hualt-Nesme, edited by the musée Hébert La Tronche-Isère, ISBN 2-905375-53-1]
* At n°57 lived the famous polemicist Henri Rochefort - this house was also the last Paris studio of Renoir.
* At N°57 bis lived Eugénie Buffet, famous street singer.
* N°63, former "cirque Fernando", then "Médrano".
* At N°66 the composer Gustave Charpentier lived for 60 years.
* n°72, former site of the Elysée Montmartre, popular ballroom originally dating back to 1807.
* N°80, site of the théâtre de l'Elysée-Montmartre, now the le Trianon.
* n°84, site of the famous cabaret "Le Chat noir" created by the painter Rodolphe Salis.

ources and references

*Jacques Hillairet, "Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris", Minuit, Paris, 1963 (ISBN 2-7073-1054-9)