Belleville is a neighborhood of Paris, France. The commune of Belleville was created in 1789, and it was inhabited by local quarrymen, vintners, and other merchants as a suburb of Paris until its annexation into the city of Paris in 1860. Belleville became known as a working-class neighborhood, and, in 1871, the people of Belleville were some of the staunchest Communards, violently resisting the French Army's reimposition of order. During the first half of the 20th century, Belleville experienced an influx of German Jews fleeing Nazi Germany, Spaniards fleeing the Spanish Civil War, and Algerian and Tunisian Jews who arrived in the 1960s. It is also home to one of Paris' two Chinatowns, founded in the 1980s.
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Belleville in 1944
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