Rue Bleue

Rue Bleue

Location within Paris
Arrondissement	9th
Quarter	Quartier du Faubourg-Montmartre
Coordinates	48°52′33.633″N 2°20′41.113″E / 48.87600917°N 2.34475361°E / 48.87600917; 2.34475361
From	Rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière
To	Rue La Fayette

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").^{[citation needed]}

Another source said that the route is named after a factory making blue balls^{[further explanation needed]}founded in this street in 1802.

Notable places

• No. 1: Italian terrorist Cesare Battisti lived in the building, where he was arrested in 2004.
• No. 3: Chemist and balloonist Gaston Tissandier lived there in 1899.
• Between nos. 5 and 7 is the entrance to the Cité Trévise.
• No. 9: The main campus of the fashion school MOD'SPE Paris.

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  MOD'SPE Paris

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