In 1910, the Parisian authorities began to dig the Avenue Junot through the shanty town of the Maquis de Montmartre, and drove out its inhabitants, the destitute, the marginalized and the penniless artists. The architect and developer Louis Vuldy bought a plot of land and created the impasse Junot, which was private until 1926 and renamed Villa Léandre in 1936. It was named after the Montmartre artist Charles Léandre, whose caricatures appeared in “Le Rire” and “Le Figaro”. The impasse is lined with houses built in an undeniably Anglo-Norman style that gives them a little British air.