Manufacture des tabacs d'Issy-les-Moulineaux

The Manufacture des tabacs d'Issy-les-Moulineaux stands out with its long, imposing brick facade marked by arched windows and a heavy industrial clock tower. Built in the late nineteenth century, it served as a massive production center for the French state tobacco monopoly. When it opened in eighteen seventy-three, it employed over a thousand workers, primarily women known as cigarières, to hand-roll millions of cigarettes. The factory sustained the local economy for decades before cigarette manufacturing moved elsewhere, leaving this shell behind.