Faubourg Saint-Jacques

Part of the Faubours S-Iacques on the Plan de Truschet et Hoyau

The Faubourg Saint-Jacques is the consecutive name of several former suburbs of Paris that are now incorporated into the city of Paris and are part of the 5th and 14th arrondissements .

The term successively referred to two parts of the city outside the city walls as the city expanded. Between the 12th and 18th centuries, the city ended on the left bank of the Seine at the walls of Philippe Auguste and the Faubourg Saint-Jacques began at the Porte Saint-Jacques, which is on the corner of what is now Rue Saint-Jacques and the Rue Soufflot was located. As under Louis XVI. The Mur des fermiers généraux ( wall of the general tenants ) was built, Paris extended to today's Boulevard Saint-Jacques and thus also included the Faubourg.

The center of the Faubourg Saint-Jacques was the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas and the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques as an extension of the Rue Saint-Jacques extra muros . Today the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques is only called that from the Boulevard Port-Royal .

During the revolution , the suburb was called Faubourg de l'Observatoire .