Lavoir Moderne Parisien

The Lavoir Moderne Parisien stands on the Rue Léon in the Goutte d'Or neighborhood as a remnant of nineteenth-century public infrastructure. Originally built in eighteen fifty as a neighborhood washhouse, the structure gained literary recognition when Émile Zola described it in his eighteen seventy-six novel, L'Assommoir. After its time as a place for laundry, the building served as a studio for the sculptor César before being repurposed as a theater in nineteen eighty-six.