Grange Batelière

Grange Batelière was called a small river on the Rive Droite , the right bank of the Seine in Paris , which was believed to have formed from the streams of the hill of Ménilmontant . This is disputed by researchers who believe that the water that flows underground today is a tributary of the Seine and therefore deny the existence of the Grange Batelière. In fact, before the Quaternary , the Seine took a very similar course as the river later known as the Grange Batelière.

The name, which was derived from a farm in the 13th century, remains common regardless of this fact. It goes back to the French term for a "ferryman's house" or a "boat shed".

The Grange Batelière roughly followed the course of today's Rue Chauchat , Rue de Provence , Rue du Faubourg-Montmartre and Rue de la Grange-Batelière to the Opéra Garnier , where it currently forms a large underground lake, where the fire brigade has a pumping station has set up.

history

Already in Gallo-Roman times, the water provided the Parisier residents quoted by Lutetia town of half in the north of the Seine, the drinking water , a feature on the Rive Gauche of Bièvre fell. Just as the Paris section of the Bièvre, the Grange was transformed Batelière in the 18th and 19th centuries gradually in a dirty sewage canal , which was finally laid in the ground and there in the Grand égout , the great melting pot of the Paris sewer system discharges.

The legend made the Grange Batelière to a wide, navigable river at the Old Opera House, over which the Phantom of the Opera from the eponymous 1911 novel by Gaston Leroux his mysterious nocturnal excursions competes in the "City of Light" Paris.

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• Jacques Hillairet: "Dictionnaire Historique des rues de Paris", Paris, 1963, Editions de Minuit, ISBN 2-7073-0092-6
• Alfred Fierro: "Histoire et Dictionnaire de Paris", Paris, 1996, Editions Robert Laffont, ISBN 2-221-07862-4
• Grand Larousse Encyclopédique, Paris, 1960, Editions Larousse