The name Dereure has been attributed to this street without there being any direct link with the biography of the member of the Commune and this place.

Simon Dereure (1838 - 1900). A shoemaker and Blanquist, he became a member of the International Working Men's Association. In November 1870, Louis Simon Dereure was elected deputy mayor of the 18th arrondissement of Paris with Georges Clemenceau elected mayor. He took part in the uprisings of 31 October 1870 and 22 January 1871 against the National Defence government.

On 26 March Simon Dereure was elected to the Council of the Commune by the 18th arrondissement. During the Bloody Week, he fought on the barricades and managed to to take refuge in Switzerland. He was sentenced to death in absentia by the^4th Conseil de Guerre in April 1873.

Established in New York in 1871, he was active in the International Working Men's Association and at the Hague Congress in 1872, he voted to exclude Bakunin and was elected to the Council of the International. Returning to France after the amnesty of 1880, he joined the Workers' Party.