Rue Jean de La Fontaine
| Rue Jean de La Fontain | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 16. |
| quarter | Auteuil |
| Beginning | Rue de l'Assomption |
| The End | Rue d'Auteuil |
| morphology | |
| length | 962 m |
| width | 20 m |
| history | |
| designation | March 15, 2004 |
| Original names | Rue de la Tuilerie Rue La Fontaine Rue de la Fontaine Rue des Deux-Fontaines Route départementale No. 29 Rue La Fontaine |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 5168 |
The Rue Jean de La Fontaine is a street in the area of the old village Auteuil , the south of the old village of Passy is, but today one fourth ( quarter ) of the same 16th district of Paris , Passy is.
location
The street begins at the height of Rue de Boulainvilliers and Rue de l'Assomption in the extension of Rue Raynouard and Rue d'Auteuil .
The road can be reached by metro via the Jasmin and Michel-Ange - Auteuil lines and or by bus from RATP 22, 52 and 70.
Name origin
The Rue La Fontaine was given its current name on October 2, 1865 in honor of the French writer Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695); he had spent much of his life in Auteuil. Originally the street Rue (or Chemin) de la Fontaine here, because there was a spring here (fountain = French fontaine ).
history
The street was created by decree of October 2, 1865 by merging two streets, which can be seen on the Plan de Roussel from 1730, as the sole route to Passy.
Rue La Fontaine is the southern extension of Rue Raynouard , which was one of the posh streets of the old village of Passy and is still a preferred address in Paris. The streets, which lie on a fairly straight line, are separated by the Place du Docteur Hayem , from which the 962-meter-long Rue La Fontaine runs in a south-westerly direction to Rue d'Auteuil .
Famous people associated with this street
The Rue La Fontaine was the birthplace and residence of a number of well-known personalities.
On July 10th, 1871, the French writer Marcel Proust saw the light of day in this street and almost exactly 25 years later, on May 13th, 1896, in the house there with number 96 (photo left) became the pilot known for his flying skills Marcel Doret born.
The stage actor Léonide Charvin (1836-1891) lived for a long time on Rue La Fontaine; not far from the corner from which a junction leads to a street named after him today. This is called Agar and refers to his stage name, which he got based on a biblical myth. According to chapter 16 of Genesis , Agar was an Egyptian slave of Sarah, Abraham's wife, who could not bear a child for a long time. In order to give her husband a son, however, she gave him her maid Agar, who promptly became pregnant and gave birth to a son to Abraham, who was named Ishmael. Chapter 21 of Genesis reports that Agar and Ishmael were driven out after Sarah later became pregnant and gave Abraham a son named Isaac.
The operetta composer Claude Terrasse (1867–1923), who many believed to be the legitimate successor of the great Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880), also lived - and died - in Rue La Fontaine.
Furthermore, the actress Juliette Drouet (1806-1883) apparently lived for a while in this street, where a building named after her - the Maison Juliette Drouet - was on the corner of Rue George Sand .
In addition, at number 14 of this street is the Castel Béranger , the first major work by the architect Hector Guimard (1867–1942). Guimard was the builder of several objects on this street, including house number 60 (photo right), which now serves as a student residence.
Web links
literature
- Philippe Siguret, Bertrand Lemoine : Vie et historie du XVIe arrondissement . Editions Hervas, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-903118-19-1 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Philippe Siguret, Bertrand Lemoine: Vie et historie du XVIe arrondissement . Editions Hervas, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-903118-19-1 , pp. 135 .
- ↑ Philippe Siguret, Bertrand Lemoine, op.cit., P. 102
- ↑ Philippe Siguret, Bertrand Lemoine, op.cit., P. 115
- ↑ Philippe Siguret, Bertrand Lemoine, op.cit., P. 125
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 3 ″ N , 2 ° 16 ′ 17 ″ E