[yubblegum]

Any French sleuths in the house that can geolocate that street? There is partial visibility of the signage for a chocolate factory. (Just curious.)

p.s. AI assisted search to the rescue: "The factory visible in the photo was located in the 11th arrondissement, near the intersection of rue Saint-Maur-Popincourt and rue du Faubourg-du-Temple."

link has pic of the same location today: https://marinaamaral.substack.com/p/the-first-photo-of-an-in...

[tecleandor]

Wikipedia says [0] it's rue Saint-Maur-Popincourt, and from this article [1] it says it was taken from 92 Rue du Faubourg du Temple. Going there with Google Street Maps and rotating to look to rue Saint-Maur, seems feasible.

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  0: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Barricades_rue_Saint-Maur._Avant_l%27attaque,_25_juin_1848._Apr%C3%A8s_l%E2%80%99attaque,_26_juin_1848.jpg
  1: https://www.unjourdeplusaparis.com/paris-reportage/premiere-photo-barricade-histoire

[fredoralive]

Although that link doesn't actually have the picture of it today, looking at street view's history mode, what seems to have been the "Fabrique Chocolat" building (it's chimney stack is kinda distinctive, even if it was modified at some point, presumably when an extra story was added) was demolished circa 2015/2016.

Hopefully this line noise goes to the right place: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8707602,2.3734964,3a,75y,261...

[yubblegum]

> Although that link doesn't actually have the picture of it today

?? Works for me. It's the second pic right after the 1848 one. See "The same place today:"

The chocolate factory is the building right after the white building with orange sign in the modern version. Same exact silhouett. So that building in Paris is almost 200 years old.

[fredoralive]

I think we agree on which building it is. However the street view link I made should show that building there in 2015, then if you look at newer images it spends a few years as an empty space then it’s now a modern building.

Edit: I have no idea how well these deep links to old street views actually work but here are a few of them:

2015: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8707604,2.3734989,3a,75y,271...

2016: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8707572,2.3734939,3a,75y,269...

2024: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8707802,2.3735089,3a,75y,271...

[derbOac]

Thanks for that link.

I've seen this photo before but never with any historical context, other than its significance as a photography milestone.

That site explains the context of it as a news photo relatively well.