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.Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments
Notable places
No. 1: Italian terrorist Cesare Battisti lived in the building, where he was arrested in 2004.Battisti sème la pagaille au conseil du IX e No. 3: Chemist and balloonist Gaston Tissandier lived there in 1899.Kevin Desmond, Gustave Trouvé: French Electrical Genius (1839-1902), McFarland, 2015, p. 159. Between nos. 5 and 7 is the entrance to the Cité Trévise.Cité Trévise No. 9: The main campus of the fashion school MOD'SPE Paris.MOD'SPE Paris
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