Rue Dauphine

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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '  N , 2 ° 20'  E

Rue Dauphine
location
Arrondissement 6th
quarter Monnaie
Beginning 57, Quai des Grands Augustins
1, Quai de Conti
The End 72, rue Saint-André des Arts
51, rue Mazarine
morphology
length 268 m
width 16 m
history
Emergence 1607
Original names Rue de Thionville
Rue Neuve Dauphine
Petite-Rue Dauphine
Coding
Paris 2593

The rue Dauphine [ ryde dofiːn ] ( German  "street of the heir to the throne " ) is a street in the Quartier de la Monnaie in the 6th arrondissement of Paris .

location

The Rue Dauphine achievable with the Metro Paris Metro 4.svg , Station Odéon , as well as with the line Paris Metro 7.svg, station Pont-Neuf and the bus Bus RATP 24, 27, 58, 86, 87th

Name origin

Portrait of Louis XIII, son of Henri IV, by Philippe de Champaigne

It was built in 1607 under the French King Henry IV (1553-1610). It is named after the Dauphin (nobility title of the heir to the throne), the long-awaited son of Heinrich, who was given to him on the French throne as King Louis XIII. (1601-1643) followed.

history

Rue Dauphine was laid out in 1607 under Henry IV between the Seine and the city wall by Philippe Auguste through the gardens of the Couvent des Grands-Augustins . The monks opposed the expropriation of their land, but Henri IV would have convinced them by threatening to open the street with cannon fire.

In 1639 rue Dauphine was extended to the intersection of Carrefour de Buci . This connection was called “Rue Neuve Dauphine” or “petite-rue Dauphine”.

Rue Dauphine was built at the same time as Place Dauphine and the Pont Neuf to which it extends. In 1763 the first street lamps were installed on rue Dauphine by Lieutenant Colonel Antoine de Sartine. On October 27, 1792, the whole street was renamed Rue de Thionville before being given its old name back in 1814.

Contemporary illustration of Pierre Curie's fatal accident in Rue Dauphine not far from Pont Neuf (1906)

The road gained notoriety in 1906, when the Nobel laureate in physics Pierre Curie (1859–1906) slipped here in rainy weather, got under the wheels of a truck and died at the scene of the accident.

Web links

Commons : Rue Dauphine (Paris)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jacques Hillairet, Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris, Paris , Éditions de Minuit , 1972, 1985, 1991, 1997 etc. (1st ed. 1960), 1,476 p., 2 vol., ISBN 2-7073-1054- 9 , OCLC 466966117 , Vol. I, p. 417
  2. ↑ THE PARIS ARCHIVES: THE DEATH OF PIERRE CURIE Report on the fatal accident of Pierre Curie on Rue Dauphine, accessed on September 14, 2017.