The district Ménilmontant was popularized by the song "La marche de Ménilmontant", sung by Maurice Chevalier in 1941, the latter being born in a "boui-boui" street Ménilmontant. This neighbourhood is lively and pleasant to live; streets Oberkampf and Ménilmontant participate in this emulation. Ménilmontant The station was the scene of a fire in 1903 but made no victim to this station evacuated beforehand, but the fire spread to Crowns fit 84 dead.