Boulevard Saint-Germain
| Boulevard Saint-Germain | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 5th , 6th and 7th arrondissement |
| quarter | Saint-Victor Sorbonne Monnaie Odéon Saint-Germain-des-Prés Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin Invalides |
| Beginning | Quai Saint-Bernard on the Pont de Sully |
| The End | Quai d'Orsay at the Pont de la Concorde |
| morphology | |
| length | 3150 m |
| width | 30 m |
| history | |
| Emergence | 1855 |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 8845 |
The Boulevard Saint-Germain [ bulvaʁ sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ] extends over the 5th , 6th and 7th arrondissement of Paris . The street running east-west is the longest boulevard in the city. It is mainly a shopping street with boutiques, bookstores and famous cafes.
location
The boulevard is on the Rive Gauche , the part of the city south of the Seine , and leads u. a. through the Latin Quarter , where it is one of the main arteries with the crossing Boulevard Saint-Michel . It begins on the Seine opposite the Île Saint-Louis , on Quai Saint-Bernard in the 5th arrondissement, which it crosses at the foot of the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève . It continues through the 6th arrondissement and meets the river again at Quai d'Orsay in the 7th arrondissement.
Long stretches of the Boulevard Saint-Germain are tunnelled with Métro systems . Line 10 runs under the eastern section with the underground stations Maubert-Mutualité , Cluny-La Sorbonne and Odéon . At the transfer station Odéon also has line 4 one stop and follow the boulevard from there to the station Saint-Germain-des-Prés . The western section of Boulevard Saint-Germain lies above the tunnel of Line 12 and is home to the Solférino and Assemblée nationale underground stations . The Mabillon (line 10) and Rue du Bac (line 12) stations are also directly on the boulevard .
Surname
The name of the Faubourg Saint-Germain district , which the boulevard crosses, gives it its name . It refers to the Bishop Germanus of Paris (496-576), to whom the nearby Saint-Germain-des-Prés Abbey is dedicated.
History of origin
Under the city architect and prefect Georges-Eugène Haussmann , road construction in Paris initially concentrated on the districts north of the Seine ( Rive Droite ). There was also the continuation of the north-south axis, which was called Boulevard Saint-Michel. On August 11, 1855, the new road construction projects for the Rive Gauche were adopted. This also included the new Boulevard Saint-Germain, which was initially to lead from Quai de la Tournelle to Boulevard Saint-Michel . The latter was still called Boulevard de Sébastopol-Rive-Gauche when it opened in 1855 and was only given its current name on February 26, 1867. By decree of July 28, 1866, work began on the western section of Boulevard Saint-Germain - from Boulevard Saint-Michel to Quai Anatole France . Numerous houses had to give way for this, which is why Haussmann called himself a “demolition artist”. This delayed the completion of Boulevard Saint-Germain until 1877. The building permit for the section of Metro line 4 running under the boulevard was granted in April 1905, which opened on January 9, 1910.
Buildings
The oldest building on Boulevard Saint-Germain and the oldest church in Paris is the Saint-Germain-des-Prés Abbey . The headquarters of the world-famous perfume manufacturer Diptyque is located in house number 34 . The Théâtre de Cluny , founded on January 17, 1864 in house number 71, was closed and demolished in 1989. South of the Boulevard Saint-Germain, at the level of the Cluny - La Sorbonne metro stop, is the former Hôtel de Cluny , which houses the Musée national du Moyen Age , which is equipped with medieval exhibits . Three of the world's most famous literary cafés are located close to each other on the boulevard: Les Deux Magots on Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés (built in 1875), the Café de Flore in house number 172 (1865) and the brasserie across the street Lipp in house number 151 (founded in 1880 by the Alsatian Léonard Lipp; Madonna and François Mitterrand were guests there). The existentialism movement around Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir was founded in the Cafés Les Deux Magots and the Café de Flore . Numerous publishing houses and bookstores have settled in the intellectual quarter of the Latin Quarter. The oldest café in Paris is said to be Le Procope (1686), which is located in a side street off Boulevard Saint-Germain. House No. 184 des Boulevards has housed the Société de Géographie, the world's oldest geographic society , since 1878 . It was founded in 1821 by eminent scholars such as Alexander von Humboldt , François-René de Chateaubriand , Jules Dumont d'Urville and Jean-François Champollion . The entrance is noticeable by two large caryatids , which are supposed to represent the land and the sea.
Notable buildings
- House number 7bis: A narrow building based on the former city wall Enceinte de Philippe Auguste
- House No. 37: The writer André Pieyre de Mandiargues , the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson and the painter Leonor Fini lived there
- . 57 House No: building spéciale École des Travaux Publics, du bâtiment et de l'industrie , which at the location of several old houses was built, of which the birthplace of the writer Alfred de Musset was
- House number 79: Hachette bookstore, founded in 1826 by Louis Hachette , where a bank moved in 1994. On the wall of the bookstore there was a plaque reminding of the Hôtel d'Aligre, where Charles Baudelaire was born in 1821.
- The architect Charles Garnier died in house number 90 on August 3, 1898
- House No. 104: This is where the doctor Arnold Netter lived
- House number 117 at the corner of Rue Grégoire-de-Tours : building built by Charles Garnier in 1877–1879 for the Cercle de la librairie , a book trade association. The building on Rue Grégoire-de-Tours was expanded at the end of the 19th century. Today number 117 houses the School of Journalism and a branch of Sciences Po .
House number 7bis
House number 57, École spéciale des travaux publics, du bâtiment et de l'industrie
House number 71, former international library
House number 117, Cercle de la librairie
- The writer Gilbert Cesbron lived in house no. 126 from 1946 to 1979 .
- House No. 133: A plaque on the site of the former Prison de l'Abbaye commemorates the 326 victims murdered there during the September massacre of 1792.
- House No. 136: On March 11, 1892, the anarchist Ravachol blew up part of the house. Around 1930 a Jewish family of merchants from Romania bought the house, which their daughter Yolande later inherited. After being imprisoned in Romania for ten years for political reasons, she returned to Paris and moved to the fourth floor of the house, rented the remaining apartments and set up a men's clothing boutique with her husband on the ground floor. He died of Parkinson's in 1990 . Since she had no children, she bequeathed her legacy to the fight against this disease to the Fondation de France , which founded the Schutzman-Zisman Foundation ; this is her parents' name, as announced on a plaque above the front door.
- House No. 142: Restaurant Vagenende , former bouillon from 1905. In 1920 Vagenende owned the property.
- House No. 145: Brasserie Lipp . In 1965, the Moroccan opposition leader Ben Barka was kidnapped in front of the bar ; a plaque commemorates the incident.
- The memorial to the writer Denis Diderot by Jean Gautherin (1886) in front of house no. 145 reminds us that he lived there in what was then Rue Taranne
- The Moroccan opposition politician Mehdi Ben Barka lived in house number 151 .
- House No. 153: The Polish historian and politician Joachim Lelewel lived there in 1832 , a plaque commemorates this.
Former prison Prison de l'Abbaye on the site of today's house at number 133
Plaque for the victims of the September massacre of 1792 at house no. 133
Diderot monument by Jean Gautherin in front of house no.145
- The resistance fighter François Faure lived in house number 167 , a plaque reminds of this
- House no. 168bis: Square Félix-Desruelles was created when the houses that stood around the Saint-Germain-des-Prés Abbey until the mid-19th century were destroyed. It houses the Monument à Bernard Palissy by Louis-Ernest Barrias (1883) and, on the wall of the neighboring house, a facade in enamelled sandstone, created by the architect Charles-Auguste Risler and the sculptor Jules Coutan , to display the products of the Manufacture Royale de porcelaine de Sèvres on the occasion of the World Exhibition of 1900 in Paris.
- House number 172: Café de Flore , one of the famous literary cafes in Paris, where the Prix Goncourt winners and poets of all ages meet and meet.
- House No. 177: House of the politician Édouard Frédéric-Dupont from 1908 until his death in 1995
- From January 1913 until his death on November 9, 1918, the poet and writer Guillaume Apollinaire lived in house number 202
- House number 205: Office of the International Labor Organization
- House number 215: Collège des ingénieurs
- The aviation pioneer Louis Bleriot died on 1 August 1936 at the house no. 288
Home of the poet Guillaume Apollinaire
Memorial plaque for Guillaume Apollinaire
- Some memorial plaques on houses on the street
At the intersection with the Boulevard Saint-Michel for the resistance fighter Robert Bottine
At house number 153 for the Polish freedom fighter and historian Joachim Lelewel
House number 167: François Faure , resistance fighter
The writer Louis de Rouvroy lived in house no.218 from 1714 to 1746
House number 243: Pauline Viardot , opera singer
Others
Anna Gavaldas story collection I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere (1999) with the included herein story "Small practices from Saint-German-des-Prés" is about the flirtation of a couple who met by chance on the boulevard.
literature
- Léonard Pitt: Paris, un voyage dans le temps , Parigramm, 2008, 221 pages, ISBN 978-2-84096-454-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephane Kirkland, Paris Reborn , 2013, p. 127
- ↑ Ali Madanipour, Designing the City of Reason , 2007, p 57
- ^ Jean Tricoire: Un siècle de métro en 14 lignes. De Bienvenüe à Météor . 2nd Edition. La Vie du Rail, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-902808-87-9 , p. 183 .
- ↑ Vincent Guiroud, “Leonor Fini et André Pieyre de Mandiargues: un roman inachevé”, Non-Fiction , 22 March 2011
- ^ Paris , Guide bleu Hachette, 1988, p. 413, ISBN 201011485X
- ↑ Nathalie Birchem, LA CROIX: “La postérité de l'immeuble de Yolande” , November 7, 2017
- ^ "Monument à Diderot - Paris" , on e-monumen.net
- ^ "Monument à Bernard Palissy, Paris (75006)" , on e-monumen.net .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 11 " N , 2 ° 20 ′ 11" E