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 Nov 26, 2010. Therefore, here is my take on the streets of Paris, part XXXVI !!! Hope you enjoy it as I.
The rue de l’Hirondelle is located in the Monnaie quartier or neighborhood of the 6éme district or arrondissement of Paris. The street owes its name to a sign representing a swallow. The street is very old on the left bank or rive gauche, opening around 1200 on the Clos de Laas, included in the fief of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, originally planted with uprooted vines and divided into lots from 1179. The street is indicated under the name “rue Arrondale-en-Laas” and then bears that “rue d’Hyrondale”, “rue de Lyrundelle” and “rue d’Irondelle”. It originally began on the Place du Pont-Saint-Michel. The creation of Place Saint-Michel (see post) in 1855, at the location of the street, cut it off by almost half its length. This narrow street today has the distinction of being connected at N 6 Place Saint-Michel by a seven-step staircase closed by a wrought iron gate, leading to a discreet passageway, vaulted with two arches, which gives it the tranquil appearance of a secluded cul-de-sac in a very lively neighborhood. Notable buildings here are that around 1541, the surgeon Ambroise Paré had his apothecary shop under the sign of Trois Bassins, in the part of the street razed during the development of Place Saint-Michel. Nos. 20-22: Hôtel de la Salamandre, which was supposedly built by King François I. Above the porch and in the courtyard are two bas-reliefs depicting a salamander, the king’s emblem. The hotel was completely remodeled at the end of the 18C, No. 22: former “one-eyed house” operating under the name of Hôtel-Bar de la Marine. Nos. 23, 25, 27: according to the Marquis de Rochegude, the heavily remodeled buildings are the remains of the outbuildings of the Collège d’Autun (a college of the former University of Paris founded in 1337), No. 25: the former cabaret La Bolée ,in 2019, the Black Venus , an establishment frequented by artists such as Charles Baudelaire, Jeanne Duval, then Pierre Mac Orlan, Francis Carco, as well as Robert Desnos and André Warnod.
The Paris tourist office on the 6éme arrondissement de Paris : https://parisjetaime.com/eng/article/explore-paris-s-6th-arrondissement-a823
The Rue Juliette-Récamier is located in the Saint-Thomas d’Aquin quartier or neighborhood of the 7éme district or arrondissement of Paris. It is just 73-meter-long cul-de-sac and has been converted into a pedestrian walkway. It is exclusively pedestrianized, adorned with planters. It is named after Juliette Récamier, known as Madame Récamier, who retired to the convent of the Abbaye-aux-Bois to end her days. The neighborhood is served by metro lines 10 and 12 at the Sèvres – Babylone station. This street was opened in 1907 on the site of the convent of the Abbaye-aux-Bois, which no longer exists, and which occupied the location where the street and the space at the end of the cul-de-sac were opened. This street was transformed in 1972 into a square, renamed in 2008 “square Roger-Stéphane”. Notable buildings here are at No. 3: headquarters of the Ligue de l’enseignement, (a confederation of French associations working in the fields of popular education or teaching, artistic and cultural practices, sports activities, holidays and leisure, professional training or social action) inaugurated on October 30, 1909, which occupies the building adjoining a former performance hall built in 1908 by Charles Blondel for the League on the site of the convent chapel. In 1919 it became the Récamier Theatre, a venue that housed Jean Vilar and the Compagnie Renaud-Barrault, expelled from the Odéon after May 1968 strikes. This troupe occupied the venue until 1975. It was then a rehearsal room for the Comédie-Française until 2008. No. 4: Le Récamier restaurant, frequented by many personalities from the political, media and literary worlds. No. 6: Fondation groupe EDF, a temporary exhibition space set up in the former building of the Sèvres substation of the Parisian Electricity Distribution Company, dating from the beginning of the 19C. No. 7: Square Roger-Stéphane.
The Paris tourist office on the 7éme arrondissement de Paris : https://parisjetaime.com/eng/article/explore-paris-s-7th-arrondissement-a825
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 XXXVI !!! as I.
And remember happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!
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