Passage des Princes
| Passage des Princes | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 2. |
| quarter | Vivienne |
| Beginning | 5, Boulevard des Italiens |
| The End | 97, rue de Richelieu |
| history | |
| Emergence | 1860 |
| Original names | Passage Mirès |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 7808 |
The Passage des Princes is a covered shopping arcade in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris .
location
This passage connects House 5, Boulevard des Italiens in the north-west, with House 97, Rue de Richelieu in the east. It was opened in 1860 under the name Mirès Passage .
Name origin
It bears this name because it was built on the site of a former furnished mansion ( French hotel ) called the Hôtel des Princes .
history
Despite the changes made in Paris by Baron Haussmann , which resulted in the disappearance of many passages, a resolution of September 3, 1860 approved the opening of this passage. It was the last passage built in the time of Baron Haussmann.
As part of renovation work in Paris, the banker Jules Mirès acquired the Grand Hotel des Princes et Europa in Rue de Richelieu in 1859 and had it demolished. In 1860 he built a shopping arcade on the site of the hotel and the garden behind it, as well as in the connection to the Boulevard des Italiens . The pedestrian link, initially known as Passage Mirès, was the last shopping arcade in Paris in the 19th century with a glass roof. After Jules Mirès had to file for bankruptcy shortly after opening, the shopping arcade was given the name Passage des Princes .
In 1866 the insurance company Compagnie d'assurance sur la vie acquired the passage. It was subsequently owned by the Assurances générales de France . The publisher Georges Charpentier founded the magazine La Vie moderne in 1879 , the editorial offices of which were located at the entrance to the Passage des Princes on the Boulevard des Italiens. The rooms of the magazine also served as a gallery in which a number of important Expressionists exhibited until 1883 . The works shown here included pictures by painters such as Giuseppe de Nittis , Édouard Manet , Claude Monet , Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley .
The passage was destroyed in 1985 as part of a reorganization of the site, but was rebuilt true to the original in 1995 by the architects A. Georgel and A. Mrowiec. The original opening angle was then aligned to a right angle, which enables better use of the premises: shops on the ground floor, offices from the 1st to the 4th floor, apartments on the 5th and 6th floors. Various elements of the original decor have been reused, such as: For example, a beautiful dome made of colored glass decorated with roses from the 1930s, which was reinstalled in the part near the Boulevard des Italiens, or the entrance porch on the Rue de Richelieu side.
literature
- Jean-Claude Delorme, Martine Mouchy: Passages couverts parisiens . Editions Parigramme, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-84096-055-9 .
- Bertrand Dalin (Ed.): Passages couverts de Paris . Éditions Déclics, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-84768-184-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John Rewald , The History of Impressionism , DuMont, Cologne 2001, pp. 254–263.
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 16.3 " N , 2 ° 20 ′ 22.3" E