On this spot was the Conservatoire populaire Mimi Pinson, established by Gustave Charpentier in 1902 to secure music and dance education for poor girls.

Mimi Pinson was the legendary figure in a poem by Musset and in the novel Scènes de la vie de Bohème by Henri Murger. Find more in the Montmartre museum (>f 536).

She returns in the operas La Bohème by Puccini and Leoncavallo, in La Cocarde de Mimi Pinson by Henri Goublier and in musical and movie.