Until the 1960s it was a working class quartier, composed primarily of workmen, employees, merchants and members of the middle class. These groups of people arrived in the neighborhood during the Renovation of Paris, led by Napoleon III and the architect and urban planner Georges-Eugène Haussmann.
Prior to the 1960s, this neighborhood was a working-class area with a mix of laborers, employees, merchants, and middle-class residents who settled there during the Paris Renovation led by Napoleon III and the architect and urban planner Georges-Eugène Haussmann.