Rue Crémieux

Coordinates: 48°50′49″N 2°22′16″E / 48.84694°N 2.37111°E / 48.84694; 2.37111
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Rue Crémieux photographed in 2012

Rue Crémieux is a one-block

pedestrian street in the 12th arrondissement
of Paris, originally built as workers' housing. The street has been widely recommended to tourists for its quaint painted housefronts, and has become a popular destination for filming and for social media photos.

History

The street was planned as the Millaud development in 1857, to provide housing for workers, and almost all the buildings were constructed at that time.[1] It was known as Rue Millaud from 1865 to 1898, when it was renamed for Adolphe Crémieux.[2] During the 1910 Great Flood of Paris, the water from the Seine reached as high as 1.75 metres (5.7 ft) on one of the buildings. A commemorative plaque marks the location.[1] The street was closed to vehicles in 1993.[1]

Appearance and popularity

Rue Crémieux is 144 metres (472 ft) long, running between Rue de Lyon and Rue de Bercy, and

lilac trained around an entrance and a cat stalking birds.[3][4] It has been compared to Portobello Road in London[5] and the Venetian island of Burano and widely recommended for tourist photos and used for fashion shoots.[3][4]

The street's popularity for selfies, Instagram posts, and video shoots has come to annoy the residents, who have started an Instagram account of their own to depict those taking and posing for photos[7][8] and asked the city council for a gate to close off Rue Crémieux on weekends, in the evening, and at the golden hour.[6][9][10]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 9782840965732, p. 96
    .
  2. OCLC 26972236, p. 15
    (in French).
  3. ^ a b c "Rue Crémieux: The most colourful street in Paris", Paris is Beautiful City Guide, retrieved 11 March 2019.
  4. ^ a b c "Rue Crémieux: This charming cobbled backstreet may be the most Instagram-perfect block in Paris", Atlas Obscura, retrieved 11 March 2019.
  5. ^ a b Nancy Li, "Rue Cremieux: Paris' Very Own Portobello Road", Untapped Cities, 25 October 2015.
  6. ^ a b Danielle Fowler, "Paris residents plea for influencers to leave Instagram's most famous street alone", Harper's Bazaar, 7 March 2019.
  7. ^ Carole Blanchard, "Paris: la très 'instagramable' rue Crémieux se rebelle contre les influenceurs", BFM TV, 4 March 2019 (in French).
  8. ^ Damien Leloup and Morgane Tual, "Instagram: un bouc émissaire du tourisme de masse?", Le Monde, 7 July 2019 (in French).
  9. ^ "Paris street to 'shut out Instagrammers'", BBC News, 7 March 2019.
  10. ^ Bastien Munch, "'C'est devenu l'enfer': à Paris, l'exaspération des habitants de la rue Crémieux face au défilé des instagrameurs", France Info, 3 March 2019 (with audio) (in French).

External links

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