Le Plessis-Robinson has long remained a small agricultural village huddled around its castle. Even if great names succeeded one another like the famous d'Artagnan, Colbert, or Hachette, the city owed its rise only to an idea of genius which had sprung from the spirit of a tavern-keeper called Joseph Gueusquin. It was around 1848 that everything began with the creation of a cabaret... perched in a tree called the Grand Robinson in reference to Robinson Crusoe. The guinguettes are born and the whole Paris rushes with it taking the modest village to an incredible economic boom. The village becomes a city and the economic rise has not since dried up with the creation of garden cities and even with the closing of the last tavern in 1976.