Places

The locations (listed by Arrondissement) where those of the left lived, worked and met as well as the areas where significant events took place.

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Pont Neuf

Arrondissement 1 The oldest bridge in Paris, the Pont Neuf was its first bridge without houses and constructed entirely out of stone. It was also ...

Place Vendôme

Arrondissement 1 Numbers: 1-2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11-13, 24, 23-26 The Place Vendôme was built to celebrate France’s military might under Louis XIV, the ...

Rue Bachaumont

Arrondissement 2 Numbers: 7-8 This road testifies to the internationalism of corrupt world elites as early as the mid-19th century. It was only named after ...

Les Invalides

Arrondissement 7 This military hospital, retirement home, barracks and church played a key role in 1789 and since 1840 houses the remains of Napoleon

Rue de la Roquette

Arrondissement 11 Numbers: 1, 17, 34, 75, 143-147,151 Probably named from the 15th century after the rocket plant that used to grow extensively hilly and ...

Rue Cujas

A short street involved with revolutions and barricades in 1830,1848 and 1871, as well as with the Dreyfusards in the 1890s

Rue de Clichy

Arrondissement 9 Numbers: 21, 24, 39, 43, 54-68, 55 The present road follows almost exactly the old Roman ‘road to the sea’ to Harfleur (Caracotinum) ...

Rue de l’Abbé de L’Epée

Arrondissement 5 The location of the FTP command headquarters in August 1944 during the liberation of Paris

Square Alban Satragne

Arrondissement 10 The present square includes the chapel of the Saint-Lazare prison. It started as a leper colony run by monks in the 17th ...

Rue André del Sarte

Arrondissement 18 Renamed from rue Saint-André in 1880 to honour a 16th century Italian painter, its left significance is that the Left Opposition journal, ...

Rue de l’Arbre Sec

Arrondissement 1 One of Paris' ancient streets in the heart of the old city on the North (right) bank of the Seine it links ...

Rue des Archives

Arrondissement 3 Housing the Museum of National Archives the road has also witnessed barricades and many left meetings

Boulevard Auguste-Blanqui

Arrondissement 13 Auguste Blanqui lived at No. 13 from 1878 until his death in 1881. At that time his address was in the Boulevard ...

Rue Auguste Comte

Arrondissement 6 A street overlooking the Luxembourg Garden where Trotsky decided to found the Fourth International

Rue d’Auteuil

Arrondissement 16 The site of a building that played a big part in stoking up republican sentiment against Louis-Napoléon in 1870

Place de la Bastille

Arrondissements 4. 1, 12 The square remains the symbol of revolutionary change and the end to despotism despite no trace remaining of the original ...

Boulevard des Batignolles

Arrondissement 17 Louise Michel lived at No. 88 just outside Paris proper for a few months in 1856. It was then a low rent, ...

Boulevard Beaumarchais

Arrondissement 11 The site of a concert hall whose name changed from the late 19th century (Café-concert l’Époque) to Concert Pacra, then Chansonia in ...

Rue Beaubourg

Arrondissement 3 Before Haussmann and recent rebuilding this was 12 Rue Transnonain, where soldiers massacred everyone living in the house in 1834.

Rue Béranger

Arrondissement 3 Named after the biggest poet song-writer of the 19th century who was jailed twice for his anti-Monarchism.

Place Blanche

Arrondissement 18 A bustling square on the 1791-1860 northern boundary of Paris. Its barricade in May 1871 involved fighter from the Women's Union. Today, ...

Rue Bonaparte

Arrondissement 6 A pretty street leading from the Seine to St Germain-des- Prés with memories of barricades in 1871, Sartre in the 1950s and ...

Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle

Arrondissements 2, 10 A very broad street built on the demolished ramparts and moat of the 16th century city wall it has frequently seen ...

Rue Boulard

Arrondissement 14 A street named after a rich ealry 19th century philanthropist it became home to one of France's most influential left thinkers.

Palais Bourbon

Arrondissement 7 The colonnaded National Assembly began life as a huge luxury town house before it was nationalised in the French Revolution

Rue des Bourdonnais

Arrondissement 1 One of central Paris' very early streets it was repeatedly straightened and given different names. for the left it was the centre ...

Rue de Bourgogne

Arrondissement 7 Numbers: 4 Virtually the entire revolutionary left of the 1840s used to visit No. 4. This was where the Slav exiles lived and ...

Rue de Bourgogne

Arrondissement 7 An 18th century road built on fields led away from the Seine. In 1728 the Palais Bourbon was built at its northern ...

Rue Bréguet

Arrondissement 11 The offices of the Union nationale des combattants coloniaux which in 1940 became a cover for a resistance network

Rue de Bretagne

Arrondissement 3 An old 17th century road dating from 1608 in the early 20th century it included a cafe and restaurant where Lenin spent ...

Rue de Bruxelles

Arrondissement 9 A short street where Zola lived for 13 years and then died accidentally or was murdered.

Rue de la Bûcherie

Arrondissement 5 A very old street in what was the poorest part of Paris, it used to house a school of medicine and until ...

Rue Cabanis

Arrondissements 14 A street with one of France's most important psychiatric hospitals that treated, among many others, Althusser and Utrillo.

Rue Cadet

Arrondissement 9 An old short bustling street with surrealist and Masonic connections that in the 17th and 18th centuries led to a rubbish dump

Rue Cambacérès / Rue de la Ville l’Évêque

Arrondissement 8 The first meetings of what became the Communist Conspiracy of Equals took place here in 1795. Buonarroti was its only survivor.

Rue Campagne-Première

Arrondissements14 A short road with six plaques off the Boulevard Montparnasse testifies to its artistic, poetic and left connections.

Boulevard des Capucines

Arrondissement 2, 9 One of the Grand Boulevards Karl Marx and Louise Michel have both walked the street painted by Monet

Rue Carducci

Arrondissement 19 Albert Treint, one of the first leaders of the French Communists, was living here in Belleville with his wife and son.

Avenue Carnot

Arrondissement 17 A short tree-lined wealthy-peopled avenue leading from the Arc de Triomphe it was where Aragon's father bought a small boarding house business ...

Rue Cels

Arrondissement 14 A short street a stone's throw from Montparnasse cemetery, with one of the few plaques to leftists in Paris on No. 24