Location

At the foot of the Ménilmontant butte, which used to be a part of the village of Charonne, the Saint-Fargeau neighbourhood owes its name to Louis-Michel Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, a landowner and fervent defender of the French Revolution, assassinated in 1793 for having voted for the death of King Louis XVI. Once a land of vineyards, fruit trees and asparagus, the sector became more industrial after its annexation to Paris in 1860. It was also the site for sand and clay quarries, used in the confection of bricks and tiles, before World War I.
Today, Saint-Fargeau is a dynamic neighbourhood, which has been gentrifying since the beginning of the 2000s, as demonstrated by the Monoprix located next to the Pelleport metro station. However, it has not lost its original spirit: where working-class cafés, food businesses, bookshops and shoemakers rub shoulders with hip bistros, designer boutiques and urban artworks, while artisanal beers are made at the microbrewery La Baleine. The artistic life here is intense, with the presence of numerous studios, performance halls – like the national theatre of the Colline or the Cirque éléctrique – the Ferber recording studios or the ghost “Cinema” metro station, a hotspot for film shoots. Lastly, the neighbourhood is capitalising from the Olympic Games with the renovation of the Georges Vallerey swimming pool.
The premises also take advantage of the dynamism of the shops located around the Pelleport metro station, as well as the charm of the small streets that lead to the Countryside of Paris, where several historical houses, once "low cost", today form a secret heritage. The sector is rich in transportation, with the Gambetta and Porte de Bagnolet metro stations serviced by the line 3 and the Pelleport metro station with the line 3bis, as well as the bus lines #20, 60, 61, 64, 96 and 102, in addition to the T3B tramway.