The ''Cité des Fleurs'' () is a pedestrian street in the
Épinettes
Épinettes () is a neighborhood of Paris, a part of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, 17th arrondissement of the city. The neighborhood is bounded by the Avenue de Clichy, the Avenue de Saint-Ouen and the boundaries of Paris in the North.
Hist ...
district in the
17th arrondissement of Paris
The 17th arrondissement of Paris (''XVIIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, it is referred to as ''le dix-septième'' (; "the seventeenth").
The arrondissement, known as Batignol ...
. This small village in the city remained very picturesque with small size buildings and gardens, with each building and plot following strict building guidelines.
The site was created in 1847 by two landowners and is organized around a 320 meters long pedestrian way. Small houses and ''
hôtels particuliers'' are built on each side of the way.
It was strongly influenced by the industrial neighbourhood: the
Goüin family which owned a big industrial company owned a house for its employees. There were also some small factories : ''Caramels Valentin-Picards'' or ''Poupées Gerb's''.
During World War II, the house at number 25 hosted a ''
Résistance
The French Resistance ( ) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France during the Second World War. Resistance cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis ...
'' network. The ''
Gestapo
The (, ), Syllabic abbreviation, abbreviated Gestapo (), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.
The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of F ...
'' discovered it and most members died, shot in Paris or in camps.
The famous French actresses
Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (born 22 October 1943), known professionally as Catherine Deneuve (, , ), is a French actress. She is considered one of the greatest European actresses on film. In 2020, ''The New York Times'' ranked her as one of th ...
and
Françoise Dorléac
Françoise Paulette Louise Dorléac (; 21 March 194226 June 1967) was a French actress. She was the elder sister of Catherine Deneuve, with whom she starred in the musical comedy film, '' The Young Girls of Rochefort'' (1967). Her other films ...
were born there in 1943.
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100 years of the Cité des Fleurs
17th arrondissement of Paris
Districts of Paris
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