Op deze plek is op 25 juni 1848 generaal Bréa door opstandelingen gevangengenomen, waarna hij op de Avenue d'Italie werd omgebracht. ###>It was on this spot that General Jean-Baptiste Fidèle Bréa was arrested by the insurgents on 25 June 1848 during the June Uprising, before being put to death later in a public spectacle on the Avenue d'Italie.