Le Peletier (Paris Métro) Le Peletier (Paris Métro) Le Peletier is a station of the Paris Métro. It is named after Rue le Peletier, which was named after Louis Peletier, who was last but one "prévôt des marchands" (provost of merchants) between 1784 and 1789. This feudal position was abolished in the French Revolution. The Opéra National de Paris was located in the "Salle Peletier", in Rue le Peletier, between 1821 and 1873, when it was destroyed by fire. It was the first theatre to use gas lighting to illuminate the stage. It is located a short walk from Notre-Dame-de-Lorette station on line 12,
La Libération de Paris liberation of Paris") which was released to French theaters on September 1, 1944, immediately after the German departure from the occupied territories. La Libération de Paris La Libération de Paris ("The Liberation of Paris") is a short historical documentary shot in secret by small propaganda units of the French Resistance during the Battle for Paris in August 1944. In 1943, a group of French filmmakers which included Louis Daquin, Jean Grémillon, Jacques Becker and Pierre Renoir (Jean's brother) founded the Comité de libération du cinéma français. Technicians from this group took pictures of the uprising in Paris (Battle for Paris)