Rue de Provence
Length | 1,193 m (3,914 ft) |
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Width | 18 m (59 ft) |
Arrondissement | 8th, 9th |
Quarter | Chaussée d'Antin. Madeleine |
Coordinates | 48°52′27.02″N 2°20′10.57″E / 48.8741722°N 2.3362694°E |
From | Rue du Faubourg-Montmartre |
To | Rue de Rome |
Construction | |
Completion | 1771 |
The rue de Provence is a street located in the 8th and 9th Arrondissements of Paris. It begins at the rue du Faubourg Montmartre and ends at the rue de Rome . Only the short part of the street between rue du Havre and 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). With the Parisian population increasing, this little river became the two-metre wide Grand Egout (great sewer) in the 17th century.
While "Provence" is the name of a region in the south-east of France, the street is actually named in honor of Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, comte de Provence, king of France from 1814 to 1824 under the name of Louis XVIII.
In 1884, the rue de Provence absorbed the rue Saint-Nicolas-d'Antin, which extended it further west.
Located near the Trinité - d'Estienne d'Orves .
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Notable places
- n° 22 (corner of rue Chauchat): 18th-century mansion transformed by Samuel Bing into an Art Nouveau exposition building in 1895. Sold in 1904 to the ébénist Louis Majorelleas an exposition room. Now a post office, keeping the exterior decoration.
- n° 32: Rare example of a building built in the late 1790s.[1]
- n° 34: The door is the only remainder of the Claude-Nicolas Ledoux for the widow of Swiss banker Georges-Tobie de Thellusson .[1] The opening of the hôtel on the rue de Provence was a huge triumphal arch. The hôtel was destroyed in 1826 when the rue Laffittewas lengthened.
- n° 122: location of one of the most famous former lupanars, the One-two-two.
- n° 126: Building built in 1911 by Henri Sauvage and Charles Sarrazin for the French decorator Louis Majorelle.[1]
Notes
References
- (in French) Félix Lazare, Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments, Paris, Imprimerie de Vinchon, 1844–1849
- (in French) Histoire de Paris rue par rue, maison par maison, Charles Lefeuve, 1875
- (in French) Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos (dir.), Le Guide du Patrimoine. Paris, Paris, Hachette, 1994
- (in French) Félix de Rochegude, Promenades dans toutes les rues de Paris. VIIIe arrondissement, Paris, Hachette, 1910
- (in French) Rue de Provence on the web site wikiparis