[1] It starts at the Passage Sainte-Anne Popincourt and runs all the way to the Rue Pelée.

[1] It was constructed in 1985[2] and named in honor of Nicolas Appert (1749-1841), a French businessman who invented airtight food preservation.

[3] On 7 January 2015, the offices of the satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo at 10 rue Nicolas-Appert were attacked by Islamist terrorists.

A commemorative plaque on the building records the names of eleven of the twelve people who were killed there.

[4] In September 2020, there was a stabbing attack outside of the former headquarters of Charlie Hebdo.