Named after Régnault de Wandonne, a rich 14th century Parisian merchant, rue de la Folie-Régnault is a historic artery of the capital.
Named after Régnault de Wandonne, a rich 14th century Parisian merchant, rue de la Folie-Régnault is a historic artery of the capital.
It was on these lands that the merchant built his country house in 1396. This domain, then called La Folie-Régnault, became in 1626 the property of the Jesuits. Little by little, Paris grew and the rue de la Folie-Régnault was then called “rue des Murs-de-la-Roquette”. Its right-angled layout has persisted to the present day. Between 1851 and 1899, the guillotine was stored not far from 78, at number 60. It is also on these lands that François d’Aix de La Chaise, confessor of King Louis XIV, lived and later gave his name to the famous Père-Lachaise cemetery.
The café of Amélie, the mansion of Untouchables, the jazz club of the finale of La La Land, the Hôtel du Nord of the mythical replica of Arletty “Atmosphere”, the cinema of A bout de souffle, the restaurant of Ratatouille, the quays of the Seine of Midnight in Paris, the secret places of the Da Vinci Code, the grocery store of January in La Traversée de Paris , the Bridge of Inception and Peur sur la ville, the addresses of the spectacular scenes of Mission Impossible 6, but also series Call my agent, Gears, Le Bureau des légendes, Sense8, Sex and The City, Gossip Girl…
Etienne Daho’s Café de Flore, Jay-Z and Kanye West’s hotel in Nas in Paris, Serge Gainsbourg’s Poinçonneur des Lilas metro station, Serge Reggiani and Marc Lavoine’s Mirabeau Bridge, Mc Solaar’s Lyon station…
The places evoked in the comics Adèle Blanc-Sec, Largo Winch, Blake and Mortimer, Michel Vaillant…
But also in the novels of Ernest Hemingway, Victor Hugo, Leo Malet, Daniel Pennac, Marc Levy, Guillaume Musso… you’ll find all the must-see places of Parisian Pop Culture in this new guide.
