Rue Ravignan

In full heart of Montmartre in Paris, the street Ravignan (XVIII {{E}} district), is one of oldest hillock. It comes from a way of the XIVe century, the way Sacalie , name of a locality, which led of Paris to the village of Montmartre. Become suitable for motor vehicles, he knew a traffic so important that it had to be paved in 1646, then again repaved and widened in 1675.

At the time of the Revolution, one named it already the Old man-Way , then the street of Old man-Way-of-Paris , which accepted about 1867, the name of the Jesuit preacher Lacroix de Ravignan.

With the n°7, lived the writer max Jacob, about 1906.
With the n°13 lived Edmond-Marie Poullain, painter and engraver, above the Bateau-Lavoir.

Sources and references

Dictonnaire of the streets of Paris
Paris Guides 1807 - International Bookstore

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