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The district is bordered by Place de la Bastille , Boulevard Beaumarchais , Rue du Chemin-Vert , Boulevard de Ménilmontant and part of Boulevard de Charonne , Rue de Charonne Up to Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine. | |||
==History== | |||
The estate known as La Rochette, La Raquette, and later La Roquette does not take its name from a certain Rocquet, the owner, who, as his family would long, maintain on pass on his surname to the estate towards the end of the 16th century . As early as 1470, some documents mention "La Rochette." It was a yellow flower in the growing area that gave this place its pretty nickname. | |||
The Roquette district is today a socially homogeneous area, not due to the domination of a specific social class/age, but due to the relative existence of an "mix" and stretched by the urban fabric is specific to a large part of the 11th borough . | |||
Modest buildings, but well and maintained of classical construction, mainly built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries , with the exception of the constructed buildings on the site of the old prison and that stretch on the whole length of the square. These buildings were used in particular to accommodate immigrant families throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The other buildings retain a large part of the middle classes (middle managers, civil servants, retires), attract a renewed population (students, young professionals and creatives) host also "laborers" from the commercial and craft activities of eastern Paris (trade, wholesale), from often background immigrants. | |||
The district was relatively spared from the wave of construction and redevelopment projects that prevailed in other peripheral districts: the buildings erected after 1945 did not change the urban dynamics, the dense housing and the local commercial and craft activity dynamic and atomized. | |||
However the neighborhood is undergoing transformation. The establishment of a wholesale textile center in the Sedaine-Popincourt sector has often provoked negative reactions due to the threat of a single activity, a source of pollution and excessive traffic in the streets affected. | |||
Gentrification is felt: proximity to the hyper-centre and the Bastille–Saint-Antoine sector, combined with the relatively good quality of housing and the attractive setting of the old workers' estates, have up puts up property prices in an area stretching from Bastille-Beaumarchais to the outskirts of Place Leon-Blum . | |||
:* [[Prisons La Roquette]] | :* [[Prisons La Roquette]] | ||
:* [[Ye Olde Sow & Shovel, An Authentic English Pub]] | |||
Latest revision as of 20:59, 19 October 2025
The district is bordered by Place de la Bastille , Boulevard Beaumarchais , Rue du Chemin-Vert , Boulevard de Ménilmontant and part of Boulevard de Charonne , Rue de Charonne Up to Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine.
History
The estate known as La Rochette, La Raquette, and later La Roquette does not take its name from a certain Rocquet, the owner, who, as his family would long, maintain on pass on his surname to the estate towards the end of the 16th century . As early as 1470, some documents mention "La Rochette." It was a yellow flower in the growing area that gave this place its pretty nickname.
The Roquette district is today a socially homogeneous area, not due to the domination of a specific social class/age, but due to the relative existence of an "mix" and stretched by the urban fabric is specific to a large part of the 11th borough .
Modest buildings, but well and maintained of classical construction, mainly built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries , with the exception of the constructed buildings on the site of the old prison and that stretch on the whole length of the square. These buildings were used in particular to accommodate immigrant families throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The other buildings retain a large part of the middle classes (middle managers, civil servants, retires), attract a renewed population (students, young professionals and creatives) host also "laborers" from the commercial and craft activities of eastern Paris (trade, wholesale), from often background immigrants.
The district was relatively spared from the wave of construction and redevelopment projects that prevailed in other peripheral districts: the buildings erected after 1945 did not change the urban dynamics, the dense housing and the local commercial and craft activity dynamic and atomized.
However the neighborhood is undergoing transformation. The establishment of a wholesale textile center in the Sedaine-Popincourt sector has often provoked negative reactions due to the threat of a single activity, a source of pollution and excessive traffic in the streets affected.
Gentrification is felt: proximity to the hyper-centre and the Bastille–Saint-Antoine sector, combined with the relatively good quality of housing and the attractive setting of the old workers' estates, have up puts up property prices in an area stretching from Bastille-Beaumarchais to the outskirts of Place Leon-Blum .