Boulevard Saint-Martin

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Boulevard Saint-Martin
location
Arrondissement 3rd , 10th
quarter Arts-et-Métiers
Porte-Saint-Martin
Beginning 16-23, Place de la République
The End 332, 19 rue Saint-Martin
, rue René Boulanger
morphology
length 470 m
width 33 m
history
Emergence Royal Council decree of June 7, 1670
Coding
Paris 8914

The Boulevard Saint-Martin [ bulvaʁ sɛ̃ mɑːtɛ̃ ] is one of the four Grands Boulevards in the Rive Droite of Paris north of the Seine and extends over the 3rd and 10th arrondissement .

Boulevard Saint-Martin (around 1890)

location

It is part of the chain of Grands Boulevards that stretches from west to east: Boulevards de la Madeleine , des Capucines , des Italiens, Montmartre , Poissonnière , Bonne-Nouvelle , Saint-Denis , Boulevard Saint-Martin, du Temple , des Filles -du-Calvaire and Beaumarchais .

The 470 m long and 33 m wide Boulevard Saint-Martin begins at Place de la République 16-23 and ends at Rue Saint-Martin 332 / Rue René Boulanger 19. At Porte Saint-Martin , Boulevard Saint-Denis turns into Boulevard Saint-Martin across. It is on a hill that was removed for the construction of the road; the sidewalks ( French "trottoirs" ) are separated from the street with a railing and are 2 meters above street level.

The Boulevard Saint-Martin can be reached via the metro stations République ( Métrolinie 3 , Métrolinie 5 , Métrolinie 9 and Métrolinie 11 ) and Strasbourg - Saint-Denis ( Métrolinie 4 , Métrolinie 8 and Métrolinie 9 ).

Name origin

The Boulevard Saint-Martin owes its name to the proximity to the Rue Saint-Martin , where the former monastery church of St-Martin-des-Champs was located, which today houses the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM).

History of origin

The Boulevard Saint-Martin (around 1890)

On the orders of King Louis XIV , Claude Le Pelletier drafted the first plan of Paris in early 1670. On June 7, 1670, a royal decree decided to tear down the city wall built by Charles V and replace it with a wide boulevard . It was supposed to run from rue du Calvaire to Porte Saint-Martin . Construction began in November 1671 with the connection between rue Saint-Martin and rue Saint-Honoré. In 1671 the old Porte Saint-Denis was demolished and replaced in 1672 by the current one, which was completed in the spring of 1673. The detailed construction drawings of the boulevard could not be handed in by Le Pelletier to the city office until March 18, 1675. At that time the road works had progressed to rue Poissionnière. On April 7, 1685, the leveling of hills up to rue Saint-Honoré was decided, the northern boulevards were completed in 1704. It was not until 1845 that more hills were removed, namely by means of a lowered carriageway opposite the raised sidewalks ("pavements"). On December 4, 1848, the city administration decided to make further structural changes, but these did not begin until August 18, 1879.

Buildings

Boulevard Saint-Martin with higher sidewalks
The Théâtre de la Renaissance

Sights are on the Boulevard Saint-Martin in No. 1 the cabaret "Le Caveau de la République", which was opened in 1901 and renovated in 1992 and has 450 seats. The Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique , built by Jakob Ignaz Hittorff and Nicolas Médard Audinot in No. 2 / Boulevard du Temple , which opened on June 7, 1829, was demolished in 1966. This is followed by the Porte Saint-Martin (18 m high, built in 1674, completely renovated in 1820 and renovated again in 1988), the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin at No. 16 (inaugurated on October 27, 1781 as an opera house, since 1831 a theater, 1050 seats, reopened in 1873 after fire), at No. 20 the Théâtre de la Renaissance (opened March 8, 1873, today 650 seats).

The Boulevard Saint-Martin was named after the Rue Saint-Martin (1420 m long, 14.4 m wide), which joins the Boulevard Saint-Martin at number 55. It, in turn, took its name from the Saint-Martin des Champs priory , today's Musée des arts et métiers (rue Réaumur), since February 18, 1851 . The fireworks theater "Waux-Hall" opened on August 29, 1764, in August 1765 there were uncontrolled explosions of the fireworks in the warehouse, which could be heard all over Paris. It had to cease operations in 1768 because of a complaint from a neighbor.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Jacques-Antoine Dulaure, Histoire physique et morale de Paris , 1829, p. 107.
  2. Anthony Garbino / François Blondel, François Blondel: Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution , 2010, p 74 f.
  3. ^ Robert M. Isherwood, Popular Entertainment in Eighteenth-Century Paris , 1986, p. 202.

Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 7 ″  N , 2 ° 21 ′ 29 ″  E

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