city, the Menilmontant brook finally disappeared completely. It is found, however, in the name of the street Passage du Ruisseau-de-Ménilmontant which means...

along the top of a sort of dyke. At the rue de Provence it crossed the "great sewer" or Ruisseau de Ménilmontant [fr], which was approximately two meters...

rue de Rome is in the 8th arrondissement. Where the road is now, there used to be a little river called "ruisseau de Menilmontant" (Menilmontant brook)...