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I am again to tell you about more streets of my eternal Paris. I have many many posts on Paris and several on the streets of the most beautiful city in the world. I have come up with pictures from cd rom vault that should be here for you and me.  As always thank you for following my blog some since 2010. Therefore, here is my take on the streets of Paris, part XII !!! Hope you enjoy it as I.

The Rue Rollin is located in the Saint-Victor neighborhood or quartier of the 5éme arrondissement or district of Paris. The street is an almost straight and curved street of almost 200 meters that begins on Rue Monge and ends on Rue du Cardinal-Lemoine. It has the particularity of being entirely paved with a central gutter as well as having, along its entire route, anti-parking stone bollards. Rue Rollin is served nearby by metro line 7 at the Place Monge station. This street pays tribute to the writer and rector of the university Charles Rollin who lived there at no, 30 for fifty years until his death.

This old street in Paris has had many names over the centuries: created as “chemin du Moulin à Vent”, it became “rue du Puits-de-Fer” (around 1539), then “rue des Morfondus” (1532), “rue Tiron”, rue “Neuve-Saint-Étienne” (1672), “rue Neuve-Saint-Étienne-Saint-Marcel” (1816). It is mentioned under the name of “rue des Morfonduz” in a manuscript from 1636. In 1867, it took its current name.

Notable buildings are the street has a wall-mounted fountain of a particular model at the foot of the staircase, The street is a dead end, blocked by a high double staircase of thirty-four steps to access the rue Monge. The rectangular space, preceding the staircase at the top, is named “place Benjamin-Fondane” in memory of the poet and philosopher Benjamin Fondane who lived at no, 6 of the street from 1932. He was arrested there with his sister Lise on March 7, 1944 and deported to Auschwitz where he was later gassed. Blaise Pascal lived at no 2 where he died. René Descartes lived there as an old man at no 14 The painters Sébastien-Joseph Misbach and Constant Mongé-Misbach lived at no 34 and died there respectively in 1853 and 1871,

The Paris tourist office on the 5éme arrondissement or district : https://parisjetaime.com/eng/article/explore-paris-s-5th-arrondissement-a820

The City of Paris on the 5éme arrondissement or district : https://mairie05.paris.fr/recherche/sorties?arrondissements=75005

The place Dauphine is a square named after the Dauphin, the future King Louis XIII. It is located in the 1er arrondissement or district of Paris, on the Île de la Cité, next to the former Palais de la Cité. In the middle of the Pont Neuf, the equestrian statue of Henri IV faces it. It is one of the five royal squares in the city. It is 102 meters long and 67 meters wide The tip of the triangle opens into the middle of the Pont Neuf, onto Place du Pont-Neuf, via the short Rue Henri-Robert . The square is separated from the Palais de Justice by Rue de Harlay. On each of the other two sides of the square, a row of buildings separates it from the Quai de l’Horloge to the north and the Quai des Orfèvres to the south. Place Dauphine is located near the Pont-Neuf metro station, on the right bank, served by line 7.The Place Dauphine is one of the most romantic squares in Paris today, home to many art galleries and small restaurant-cafés, which ensures that it is relatively busy, but without the crowds. To get there, go to Place du Pont-Neuf (at the bridge) and take the small rue Henri-Robert.

Notable buildings here are at No. 7: Vert-Galant building, built by Henri Sauvage in 1932. No. 15: Simone Signoret and Yves Montand lived there. Yves Simon remained there. No. 26: location of the pyre where Jacques de Molay perished on March 11 or 18, 1314. No. 28 Camille Pissarro moved in on the second floor in November 1900, at the western tip of the Île de la Cité. From its corner windows, its gaze sweeps the Hôtel de la Monnaie and the dome of the Institut de France on the left bank, the quiet Square du Vert-Galant immediately downstream, the Pont des Arts and the venerable façade of the Louvre on the right bank, and finally, due north, the Pont Neuf. At the same number, the Gaubert paper mill, founded in 1830, is still in business.

A bit of history of this wonderful romantic square tell us that the land occupied by this square, there were formerly two islands; the larger one was called “Île au Bureau”. It took its name from Hugues Bureau who, on February 6, 1462, purchased this site. The neighboring island was narrower but longer, its name “Île à la Gourdaine” came from the mill called “de la Gourdaine”. The construction of the Pont Neuf, from 1578 to 1607, led to the attachment to the Île de la Cité of three alluvial islets at water level: the Îlot du Passeur-aux-Vaches (or “Île aux Bœufs”), the Île à la Gourdaine (also called “Île du Patriarche”) and the Île aux Juifs. The square was named thus by the king himself, in honor of the dauphin born in 1601, the future Louis XIII. Close to the Louvre, the Place Dauphine became a place of exchange and stock exchange, attracting goldsmiths, eyewear makers and engravers. The square was then almost closed, opening only by two passages at its ends, of which only the one located to the west remains, and which leads to the equestrian statue of Henry IV. During the French revolution and the First Empire, it was renamed, so that between 1792 and 1814, it was called “Place de Thionville” in memory of the heroic resistance of the inhabitants and the garrison of Thionville to the Prussian armies in 1792. From 1803 to 1874, the Desaix fountain, erected in honor of General Desaix, who died at the Battle of Marengo in 1800, was located on the square.

The City of Paris on Paris Centre (now old arrondissement 1-4) https://mairiepariscentre.paris.fr/recherche/sorties?arrondissements=Paris-Centre

The Paris tourist office on the Paris Centre : https://parisjetaime.com/eng/article/explore-the-centre-of-paris-a846

There you go folks, another dandy beautiful set of glorious streets of my eternal Paris. I have criss cross them many and have many in my blog already, Again, hope you enjoy this post on the streets of Paris, part XII !!! as I.

And remember happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!