Rue du Bac, Paris

Rue du Bac, Paris
	Rue du Bac
	Shown within Paris
Length	1,150 m (3,770 ft)
Width	20 m (66 ft) (average) between quais Anatole France and Voltaire and the boulevard Saint-Germain. 18 m between the Boulevard Saint-Germain and the rue de Sèvres
Arrondissement	7th
Quarter	Saint-Thomas d'Aquin
Coordinates	48°51′23″N 2°19′35″E / 48.85639°N 2.32639°E
From	quai Voltaire, Paris and quai Anatole France
To	rue de Sèvres, Paris
Construction
Completion	Opened between 1600 à 1610

St. Catherine Labouré is interred at 140 rue de Bac, one of the places where the Virgin Mary appeared to her 48°51′04″N 2°19′26″E / 48.850974°N 2.323770°E

Rue du Bac is a street in Paris situated in the 7th arrondissement. The street, which is 1150 m long, begins at the junction of the quais Voltaire and Anatole-France and ends at the rue de Sèvres.

Rue du Bac is also the name of a station on line 12 of the Paris Métro, although its entrance is actually located on the boulevard Raspail

History

Rue du Bac owes its name to a ferry (bac) established around 1550 on what is now the

Palais des Tuileries. It crossed the Seine at the site of today's Pont Royal, a bridge constructed during the reign of Louis XIV

Originally, the street was named Grand Chemin du Bac, then Ruelle du Bac and Grande Rue du Bac.

83–85 : Former monastery of the Immaculate Conception built in 1637. It also occupied numbers 87 and 89 rue de Grenelle [fr], onto which the garden extended.
97 : Hôtel de Ségur (also called Hôtel de Salm-Dyck) : This house was built in 1722 for Pierre Henry Lemaître (also owner of the
Madame de Staël, who held a regular salon
here.

101 : Hôtel de La Feuillade

2–4 : The Caisse des dépôts et consignations, the public financial institution created in 1816 to control financial affairs in the public's interest
40 : The door of this building opens on a perpendicular passage to the rue du Bac. Inside the passage was the Hôtel Cochin where Charles de Montalembert lived.
44 : In 1932,
Man's Fate
here.
46 : The outside door has panels representing Prudence and Law, sculpted by
rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré) and the castle of Vaux-le-Pénil (near Melun in Seine-et-Marne
department).

102 : Hôtel de Sainte-Aldegonde, built in the first half of the 18th century

104 : This is where the artist, actress and draughtswoman Sonia Mossé lived until her deportation in 1943. She exhibited her sculpture at the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme in 1938.^[1]
110 : Across courtyard, studio and house constructed in 1812 for himself by Pierre-Louis Baltard, father of the architect Victor Baltard. The ground floor of the house was occupied by James McNeill Whistler from 1892 to 1901.^[2]
118–120 : Two hotels, separated by a
Missions étrangères de Paris) are probably the work of Jean-Baptiste Tureau
.

128 :

136–140 : Older buildings constituting the convent Maison des Filles de la Charité de Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (mother house of the
Mr Klein.^[3]

84 : Former entrance into the garden of the Hôtel de Galliffet, which has its main entrance at 73 rue de Grenelle [fr]; marked by a massive porch that was torn down in 1837
86 : Site of the former Hôtel Dillon

^ "Memorial de la Deportation des Juifs de France One-Step Search Results". stevemorse.org. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
^ Ronald Anderson and Anne Koval, James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth, Carroll & Graf, New York, 1994, pg. 357 et seq.
^ "Mr. Klein (1976)". IMDb.

This article was drawn mainly from the French Wikipedia article.

Bruno Pons et Anne Forray-Carlier (dir.), La Rue du Bac, Paris, Délégation à l'action artistique de la Ville de Paris, 1991 –
ISBN 2-905118-33-4

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