rue de Lappe

Rue de Lappe is a narrow, cobblestone street near the Place de la Bastille that holds a reputation as the historic home of the Parisian bal-musette. Once a collection of gardens owned by a seventeenth-century market gardener named Gérard de Lappe, the street evolved into a gritty, working-class enclave for laborers, artisans, and ironmongers.