Rue Mouffetard
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ' N , 2 ° 21' E
| Rue Mouffetard | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 5. |
| quarter | Saint-Victor Jardin-des-Plantes Val-de-Grace Sorbonne |
| Beginning | Rue Thouin Rue Pascal |
| The End | Rue Thouin |
| morphology | |
| length | 650 m |
| width | 7 m |
| history | |
| Emergence | 1st century |
| Original names | Rue Saint-Marcel Rue Saint-Marceau |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 6524 |
The Rue Mouffetard (French popular. La Mouffe ) is one of the oldest streets in Paris and is one of the most famous sights of the city. It is located in the 5th arrondissement between Place de la Contrescarpe in the north and Rue Censier in the south, has a length of 605 meters and is seven meters wide.
Name and story
The name Mouffetard is probably derived from the word mofette for bad-smelling vapors . The unpleasant smell came from the former course of the nearby Bièvre , which now runs underground there. The road was first mentioned in a document in 1254, when a path led along the road from Lutetia (former name of Paris) via Lugdunum ( Lyon ) to Rome. The street has been within the city limits since July 18, 1724, when King Louis XV. set the boundaries of Paris. Due to its location on a hill, the area surrounding the street was not taken into account in Haussmann's plans for renovation , which enabled it to retain its medieval character. On May 24, 1938, a gold treasure from the time of Louis XV was found during construction work on 53 Rue Mouffetard. found.
Buildings
There are numerous houses from the 16th to 18th centuries along Rue Mouffetard . At the intersection with the Rue du Pot de Fer stands the Pot de Fer fountain, built under Marie de Médicis , from 1624 and remodeled in 1671.
In the south of the road which is Church Saint-Médard . It was mentioned for the first time in 1163 and largely rebuilt in the 16th century in the Renaissance style. In 1784 the Lady Chapel was added. In the 18th century the church became the meeting place for the convulsionaries of Saint-Médard , a fanatical movement of the Jansenists .
Others
The street is a typical market street with numerous market stalls and restaurants. The philosopher of the French Enlightenment and editor of the Encyclopédie Denis Diderot moved with his family from rue Traversière in 1746 and in April of the same year to n ° 6 rue Mouffetard also in the 5th arrondissement. The police officer François-Jacques Guillotte , who became a friend of Diderot, lived nearby .
literature
- Chris Boicos et al. a., Paris , RV Reise- und Verkehrsverlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-89480-901-9 , pp. 160–162, 166
- Heinfried Wischermann, "Architekturführer Paris" , Gerd Hatje Verlag Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3-7757-0606-2 , p. 42 (the Church of St. Médard )
- Pierre Gripari , Les contes de la Rue Mouffetard, with fourteen stories about a Parisian street, Éditions Grasset-Jeunesse, Paris 1983
Web links
- "La Mouffe! - Rue Mouffetard" (en.) ( Memento from April 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- "Official Nomenclature of the City of Paris" (fr.)