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Belleville, Paris — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Belleville, recorded also as Mont-Chalier, is a Paris neighbourhood strung along the Rue de Belleville across four arrondissements.
About Belleville
Where to stay in Belleville
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Rue de Belleville is the spine. A room on or near it puts the Musée Édith Piaf, the Pavillon Carré de Baudouin and the Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Belleville inside the same neighbourhood, and keeps the walk short whichever of the four arrondissements the address falls in. Le Plateau sits close.
Belleville also carries the piscine Oberkampf, the hôpital Saint-Louis and the gymnase des Pyrénées, so a stay here is not purely a matter of the main street.
About Belleville
What are the main landmarks in Belleville?
Édith Piaf has a museum here. The Musée Édith Piaf sits among a run of named addresses that includes the Pavillon Carré de Baudouin, Le Plateau, Villa Belleville and the Maison de l'air, all of them entered against the same neighbourhood. Three churches are listed.
The Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Belleville, the Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix de Ménilmontant and the Église Notre-Dame de Fatima carry those names, and an AF 447 memorial stands in the neighbourhood as well.
What is the history of Belleville?
Mont-Chalier is the official name on the record. Belleville is the name in common use, and the split the neighbourhood carries across four arrondissements of Paris is the closest thing the entry gives to a history of how the place was absorbed. No founding year appears.
What the record leaves instead are its buildings: the Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Belleville, the Pavillon Carré de Baudouin and the Musée Édith Piaf, each fixed to the ground the Rue de Belleville runs through.
Where is Belleville?
The Rue de Belleville runs along the boundary of the 19th and 20th arrondissements, and the rest of Belleville spills into the 10th and 11th.
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Updated September 2026