The Rue Lepic is a street in the former commune of Montmartre , in the 18th arrondissement of Paris , climbing the hill of Montmartre from the Boulevard de Clichy to the Place Jean-Baptiste-Clément.
6-612: It is an ancient road resulting of the rectification and re-arrangement of several dirt-roads leading to the Blanche barrier ( Place Blanche ), starting life as the Chemin-neuf (the Chemin-vieux was the Rue de Ravignan). In 1852, it was renamed the Rue de l'Empereur, before it was renamed again in 1864, after General Louis Lepic (1765–1827). Painter and engraver Eugène Delâtre lived and worked on
12-602: A barricade before retreating, exhausted and out of ammunition, to Place Pigalle . Those who could not retreat were executed on the spot, among them Blanche Lefebvre . During the 1950s, the Place Blanche was a centre of Paris' transsexual community, a fact documented in Christer Strömholm 's book Les amies de Place Blanche . 48°53′2″N 2°19′57″E / 48.88389°N 2.33250°E / 48.88389; 2.33250 This Paris geographical article
18-689: Is near Pigalle . The famous cabaret Moulin Rouge stands on the Place Blanche. On 23 May 1871, during the Bloody Week at the end of the Paris Commune , when Versailles troops entered Paris to retake it for the French Third Republic , the Place Blanche was defended by 120 communard women. Among them were Béatrix Excoffon , Elisabeth Dmitrieff , Nathalie Lemel , Blanche Lefebvre , and Malvina Poulain . They held back General Clinchant 's troops at
24-626: The German occupation of France transporting a jointed pig destined for the black market. Yves Montand dedicated to this road the song "Rue Lepic" in the album Yves Montand (1974). Place Blanche The Place Blanche ( French pronunciation: [plas blɑ̃ʃ] ) in Paris , France, is one of the small plazas along the Boulevard de Clichy , which runs between the 9th and 18th arrondissements (Parisian districts) and leads into Montmartre . It
30-586: The Rue Lepic. He successively occupied addresses no. 92, no. 87, no. 97, and also no. 102. Louis Renault built his first car in 1898, calling his car the Voiturette . On December 24, 1898, he won a bet with his friends that his invention was capable of driving up the slope of the Rue Lepic. As well as winning the bet, Renault received twelve definite orders for the vehicle. On 7 September 1960, Fernand and Jackie Sardou opened their cabaret Chez Fernand Sardou on
36-472: The road in place of cabaret Belzébuth next to the residence of Utrillo . The cabaret became a preferred meeting place and played to a full house every night. Michel Sardou had his professional début there, firstly as a server. In the Claude Autant-Lara film, La Traversée de Paris (1956), "Martin" (played by André Bourvil ) et "Grandgil" (played by Jean Gabin ) were pictured in this road during
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