of Napoleon III. The boulevard is named after FrançoisRichard-Lenoir [fr] (1765-1839) and Joseph Lenoir-Dufresne [fr] (1768-1806), business-partner industrialists
refers to Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, named after the industrialist FrançoisRichard (1765–1839) who went by the name Richard-Lenoir after the death of his
established in the industrial buildings on the canal in 1801, and FrançoisRichard-Lenoir [fr] opened a mill in 1807. It employed as many as 600 people and
children, in the rue de Charonne spinning mills of FrançoisRichard-Lenoir (1765–1839) and Joseph Lenoir-Dufresne (1768–1806), housed in a former convent