Saint Honoré Monastery
The former Saint-Honoré monastery in Paris and the associated collegiate church gave its name to the Rue Saint-Honoré , one of the oldest streets in the city, the Porte Sainte-Honoré , the Faubourg Saint-Honoré and the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré .
history
The church was built in 1204 and looked after by monks who lived in the associated monastery. It stood on the north side of Rue Saint-Honoré between two streets that still exist today, Rue Croix des Petits-Champs and Rue des Bons-Enfants. The Hôtel d'Armagnac was adjacent to the outskirts and the Collège des Bons-Enfants, which opened in 1208, to the rear. Today the Palais Royal and Comédie-Française are two blocks west .
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The church was expanded in 1579, but over time more and more residential buildings were added. In 1630 the church on rue Saint-Honoré had an enclosure with a gate on rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs. This included a large residence that stretched west to Rue des Bons-Enfants. In the north, the monastery district was now bordered by a row of houses. In 1739 the monastery was surrounded by houses on all sides.
During the revolution the church was closed and demolished in 1792. They were replaced by two passages that formed a “T”: Passage Marchand and Passage d'Athènes. The last remains of these passages were demolished in 1913.
literature
- Jacques Hillairet, Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris, Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 1970, 2 volumes, for Saint-Honoré: vol. 2, p. 430
- Béatrice de Andia, Dominique Fernandès, Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, Exposition tenue à l'Hôtel Le Bristol à Paris, Paris, Délégation à l'action artistique de la ville de Paris (Paris et son patrimoine), 1994, 430 p ., ill.,
- Michel Le Moël, Raphaël Caussimon, Paris au fil du temps, 150 plans des Archives nationales du XVIe au XIXe siècle, Paris, Archives nationales et Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995, 3 CD-ROM, 12 cm