Ben-Aïad passage
| Ben-Aïad passage | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 2. |
| quarter | |
| Beginning | 8, Rue Mandar |
| The End | 9, rue Léopold-Bellan |
| morphology | |
| length | 90 m |
| width | 3 m |
| history | |
| Original names | Passage du Saumon |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 0849 |
The Passage Ben-OIOS is a covered shopping arcade with a glass roof from the 19th century in the 2nd arrondissement in Paris . The Ben-Aïad passage has been a protected architectural monument ( monument historique ) since 1997 .
location
Passage Ben-Aïad is located between 8, rue Mandar and 9, rue Léopold-Bellan, in a mixed residential and commercial area near the Grands Boulevards . Sentier is the nearest metro station on line 3 that crosses Paris from east to west. The proximity to the large boulevards favored the construction of the passage.
Other passages are nearby: Passage du Prado ( 10th arrondissement ), Passage Bourg-l'Abbé (2nd arrondissement) and Passage du Grand-Cerf (2nd arrondissement).
history
An uncovered passage called Passage du Saumon had been in the same place since 1763 . The newly built and opened in 1828 passage with a glass roof was built by the architect Hubert Rohault de Fleury (1777–1846). The passage originally had a gallery 175 meters long and three galleries running across it. Only one of these cross galleries still exists today. In 1853 the wealthy Turkish general Mahmoud Ben-Aïad bought the passage, after whose name it was renamed. The construction of the large department stores by the opera and the Madeleine caused the passage to decline from the middle of the 19th century.
In 1899, part of the unprofitable passage was demolished and a new street, Rue Bauchaumont, parallel to Mandar and Léopold-Bellan streets was broken through as part of urban renewal.
Literary reference
The china shop in the Passage du Saumon by M. Pierrotte plays a role in Alphonse Daudet's autobiographical novel . Pierrotte is the father of the girl the hero is in love with.
The passage was the scene of the riots and barricades on June 5 and 6, 1832, during the funeral of General Lamarque , an episode reported by Victor Hugo in Choses vues .
Current condition
As more and more shops had to close, the passage was finally closed to the public and the building was partially converted into a hotel. Today the remaining and vacant part of the passage deteriorates more and more.
literature
- Jean-Claude Delorme / Anne-Marie Dubois: Passages couverts parisiens . Parigrams, Paris 2002 (1st edition Paris 1996), ISBN 2-84096-264-0 .
- Bertrand Lemoine : Les passages couverts en France . Délégation à l'Action Artistique de la Ville de Paris, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-905118-21-0 .
Web links
- Passage Ben-Aïad Description as Monument historique in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French text)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edmond Beaurepaire, La Chronique des rues. Première série , 1900, p. 64, read from : gallica.bnf.fr .
- ^ "June 1832, l'insurrection oubliée"
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 57.9 ″ N , 2 ° 20 ′ 46 ″ E