Rue de Ménilmontant

The Rue de Ménilmontant slopes upward toward the heights of the twentieth arrondissement, characterized by its unusually steep grade and the rhythmic series of nineteenth-century limestone facades lining its path. This street originally served as the primary thoroughfare for the village of Ménilmontant before the area was absorbed into Paris. In eighteen seventy-one, it became the final defensive line for the Paris Commune, where fighters held the barricades against government troops until the very end of the uprising.