The Boulevard Voltaire belongs to the main roads created by the baron Haussmann

under Napoleon III. Initially named boulevard of the Prince-Eugene, before taking the
name of boulevard Voltaire according to the famous philosopher and writer François
Marie Arouet, said Voltaire, it connects two places which belong to the history of the
French left, the Place of the Republic and the Place of the Nation. Very quickly the
Voltaire boulevard became a way which borrow of many processions of left-wing political
parties, trade unions or protest movements.
The Bataclan is a theater of a capacity of: 1498 places in concert, located upright 50
boulevard Voltaire
Built by the architect Charles Duval in 1864, Bataclan (in reference to Ba-Your-Clan , the
operetta of Offenbach) was in the beginning large a Café-théâtre of Chinese architecture,
with the coffee and the theater with the ground floor, and large a dance hall on the first
floor. One represented there light comedies of Scribe, Bayard, Mélesville, or Dumersan,
and one also gave concerts to it.
Currently, the Voltaire boulevard, in his section located between the Boulevard Richard-
Lenoir and the Place Leon-Blum is invaded by the trade of textile the large one of poor
quality. This mono-activity, mainly between the Chinese hands, is very badly seen by the
inhabitants of the district and the mayor of the 11th district, Georges Sarre, who try to dam
up it. SEMAEST is currently charged to preempt certain buildings in order to recreate
trade of proximity and to give again life with the district