On 2 April 1868, bringing together Amandiers Street (between the street and Popincourt Boulevard Ménilmontant at the time) on the Rue du Chemin Vert (between Boulevard Beaumarchais and Rue Popincourt) that the street becomes rue du Chemin-Vert as it is today. This way there in 1650 to the state of winding path leading from the Place de la Bastille Ménilmontant; Letters Patent dated 2 May 1780 ordered its production to defense. Origin of the name through the gardens.