Quai des Grands Augustins
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '17.2 " N , 2 ° 20' 31.8" E
| Quai des Grands Augustins | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 6th |
| quarter | Monnaie |
| Beginning | Pont Saint-Michel and 2, Place Saint-Michel |
| The End | Pont Neuf and 1, Rue Dauphine |
| morphology | |
| length | 354 m |
| width | 16 m |
| history | |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 4245 |
The Quai des Grands Augustins is a quayside street in Paris . It starts at Place Saint-Michel 2, crosses the Quartier de la Monnaie in the 6th arrondissement , and ends after 354 meters at Pont Neuf and Rue Dauphine 1.
Name origin
The name comes from the Couvent des Grands-Augustins , which stood here and which later housed the Grands Augustins (in contrast to the reformed Petits Augustins).
history
The Quai des Grands Augustins is a very old Parisian street. Before the reign of Philip the Fair , only a piece of land planted with willows served as a promenade for the residents of the district. However, floods made access difficult and ruined the adjoining houses. These impairments were so great that Philip IV commissioned the Prévôt des marchands of Paris with a letter of June 9, 1231 to build a bank fortification (quay) here. In a letter dated May 20 the following year, he complained to the magistrate that his order was being delayed so much. The quay was then completed in 1389. It was first called "Rue de Seine par où l'on va aux Augustins", then "rue du Pont-Neuf qui va aux Augustins" based on the Pont Saint-Michel , at that time still called "le Pont-Neuf" . Other names followed, such as Rue des Augustins, later Quai des Augustins, Quai de la Rivière and Quai de la Vallée. The part between the Place Saint-Michel and the Rue Gît-le-Cœur (formerly Rue Gilles le Queux) was called Rue du Hurepoix until 1806 and was then added to the Quai (she also Plan de Turgot from the period between 1734 and 1736). The left side (odd house numbers) of Rue du Hurepoix remained less wide in the area of the quayside because it had not been demolished.
The redesign of the Place Saint-Michel resulted in the destruction of houses N ° 1 and 9.
Attractions
- House No. 15: Cabaret L'Écluse : This is where Barbara performed for the first time ; other well-known singers, musicians and actors had made guest appearances here: Jacques Brel , Raymond Devos , Léo Ferré , Marcel Marceau and Philippe Noiret .
- House number 21: Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre , author of Paul et Virginie , lived here in 1786 and George Sand in 1831 .
- House No. 25: Albert Marquet's parents moved here in 1905, the artist had his studio here, where he painted numerous views of the embankment. - Georges Fully, a resistance fighter, deported to Dachau , a medical doctor, who stood up for freedom and justice, was the inspector of the prison administration, was murdered on June 20, 1973 in the course of his service.
- House number 35: Hôtel Feydeau de Montholon , classified as a monument historique .
- House number 51: Restaurant Lapérouse , corner of Quai and Rue des Grands-Augustins .
- House No. 53–57: Augustinian Convent (no longer exists)
Hôtel Feydeau de Montholon seen from the Quai des Grands-Augustins
Memorial plaque on house no.25
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Félix et Louis Lazare, Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments , edition of 1844, p. 38; to read (fr)
- ↑ Cadastre de Paris par îlot (1810-1836) , Paris, plan 42. Quarter “École de Médecine”, blocks N ° 9 and 10, access 1/200, archive plan F / 31/94/10 .
- ↑ Reminder plaque on the house wall
- ↑ 35, quai des Grands-Austins , photo by Eugène Atget (1857–1927), Paris , Institut national d'histoire de l'art .