Rue Decamps
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ' N , 2 ° 17' E
| Rue Decamps | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 16. |
| quarter | Muette |
| Beginning | 5, Place de Mexico |
| The End | 110, Rue de la Tour and 66, Rue de la Pompe |
| morphology | |
| length | 550 m |
| width | 10 m |
| history | |
| Emergence | before 1730 |
| designation | 1864 |
| Original names | Rue de Versailles, Rue de la Croix |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 2640 |
The Rue Decamps is a 550 meter long and 10 meter wide street in the 16th arrondissement of Paris .
location
It starts at number 5 on Place de Mexico and ends at numbers 110 on Rue de la Tour and 66 on Rue de la Pompe . The longer northern part of the street is in the Porte Dauphine district and the shorter southern part in the Muette district . The two sections are interrupted by Avenue Georges-Mandel , which marks the border between the two quarters .
The street can be reached by metro via the Rue de la Pompe and Trocadéro stations.
Name origin
The street is named after the French painter, watercolor painter, draftsman and engraver Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803-1860).
history
According to an old map by the cartographer Roussel ( Plan de Roussel ), the northern section of the street already existed in 1730 and appears on a land map from 1825 under the name Rue du chemin de Versailles . Later the street traded as Rue de la Croix and since 1864 it has had its current name in honor of the painter Alexandre Decamps (1803-1860).
Attractions
- The right edge of the street entrance is voted by the Lycée Janson de Sailly .
- No. 2: A plaque reminds that the aviator Maurice de Seynes lived here.
- No. 10: The journalist, essayist and historian Philippe Ariès (1914–1984) lived here from 1920 to 1949.
- No. 37: Alimardan Topchubashov (1862–1934), who was President of the Azerbaijan Parliament in 1918/19, lived here temporarily in 1920 . A memorial plaque reminds of this.
Alley to the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly .
Memorial plaque at No. 2
Primary school, No. 4
Memorial plaque at No. 37
Crossing with Rue Eugène-Delacroix .
Detail of a building at the intersection of Avenue Georges-Mandel .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guillaume Gros, Philippe Ariès. Un traditionaliste non-conformiste , Presses universitaires du Septentrion, collection “Histoire et civilizations”, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, 2008, 346 pp., ISBN 978-2-7574-0041-8