Rue Saint-Antoine

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Rue Saint-Antoine
location
Arrondissement 4th
quarter Arsenal
Saint-Gervais
Beginning 3, Place de la Bastille
The End 2, rue de Sévigné
16, rue de Fourcy
morphology
length 603 m
width 21.50dep1
history
Original names Grande Rue
Rue de la Porte-Baudeer
Rue de la Porte-Baudet
Rue de l'Aigle
Grant-rue-de-la-Porte-Baudeer
Rue du Pont-Perrin
Coding
Paris 8769

The Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris is one of the oldest streets in the city. It already existed in Gallo-Roman times and was part of the road from Paris to Melun . The street is steeped in history due to its proximity to the Place de la Bastille . It is an important artery in the heart of the Marais and crosses typical streets such as Rue Saint-Paul , Rue de Turenne , Rue de Birague (which leads to Place des Vosges ) or Rue Beautreillis .

location

The Rue Saint-Antoine begins at the Place de la Bastille 3 crosses in the 4th arrondissement

and ends after 603 meters at Rue de Sévigné 2, Rue de Rivoli 1 or Rue François Miron 1.

The street is an important part of the east-west axis of Paris . It starts at the Place de la Bastille and ends at the Saint-Paul metro station (line ), or it continues, under the name “ Rue de Rivoli ”, to the Place de la Concorde . This east-west axis continues from Place de la Bastille via Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine . Metro-M.svg Paris Metro 1.svg

Name origin

Orientation board (Paris)
"Rue Saint-Antoine"

The street owes its name to the Saint-Antoine-des-Champs abbey , where it led to.

history

Already in Gallo-Roman times there was a road from Paris to Melun on the north bank of the Seine . It was higher than the surrounding marshland ( Marais ) and was covered with slabs, which in turn served as a base for the later roads. This Roman road branched off north of the Seine from the ancient Cardo to the east (roughly where the Rue Saint-Martin - part of the old Cardo - begins), followed today's Avenue Victoria, then ran across the Place de l'Hôtel-de- Ville and also through the Hôtel de Ville , then left past the parish church of Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais , and followed today's Rue François Miron and finally Rue Saint-Antoine to the Bastille and beyond.

In the Middle Ages, the Rue Saint-Antoine stretched on this Roman road from the Rue des Barres to the Place de la Bastille. The part that has been called Rue François Miron since 1865 was called Rue de l'Aigle and Grand'rue de la Porte Baudeer in 1227 (Baudoyer or Baudet - a city gate from the 11th century directly north of Saint-Gervais, today the Place is located here Building approval). The piece to the east of it, today's Rue Saint-Antoine, was then called Rue du Pont Perrin. The rue Saint-Antoine ended in the city at the Place de Grève, the transhipment point for river trade, but also offered a junction at the level of the Porte Baudoyer with the rue de la Tixeranderie (which no longer exists today), with which one can continue into the City came in without touching the market square.

It was named Rue Saint-Antoine because of the Abbey of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs , which was outside the city (i.e. beyond the Bastille) on the road to Vincennes Castle and was converted into a hospital in 1790.

Today's Rue Saint-Antoine was extraordinarily wide for its time, which is why it was also used as a promenade and as a venue for events - especially the Charles V residence , the Hôtel Saint-Paul (on the south side), and the Hôtel des Tournelles (on the north side) here, in the immediate vicinity of the Bastille, was the Bastide Saint-Antoine, which closed the road to the east.

The Rue Saint-Antoine was then also the scene of the tournament in which King Henry II was injured so badly on June 30, 1559 that he died a few days later.

Attractions

The no longer existing buildings of the Middle Ages:

  • the old Porte Sainte-Antoine (from the wall of Philip Augustus , stood where the Rue de Rivoli begins)
  • the Bastille and the Nouvelle Porte Saint-Antoine (from the wall of Étienne Marcels )
  • the Hôtel Saint-Paul
  • the Hôtel d'Orgemont or Hôtel des Tournelles (the area on both sides of the Rue de Birague up to the Place des Vosges)
  • the Hôtel der Blanka of Navarre in the Rue de la Vieille-Tixeranderie, which gave way to the construction of a road in the 19th century
  • the Couvent Sainte Cathérine (at today's Place du Marché Sainte-Cathérine), and

which together framed almost the entire area of ​​the Rue Saint-Antoine.

Date from a later time

such as

literature

  • Claude Dubois: La Rue Saint-Antoine. Éditions Jean-Paul Rocher, "L'air de Paris" collection, 2011, ISBN 978-2-917411-44-5 .
  • Jacques Hillairet : Connaissance du vieux Paris. Éditions Princesse, Paris, 1978 ISBN 2-85961-019-7 , pp. 13-15.
  • Jacques Hillairet: Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris. Editions de Minuit.
  • Jacques Hillairet: La Rue Saint-Antoine. Éditions de Minuit, 1970, ISBN 2-7073-0563-4 .
  • Félix et Louis Lazare: Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments.
  • Jean de La Tynna: Dictionnaire topographique, étymologique et historique des rues de Paris. 1817.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Originally the street name Saint-Anthoine was written; the letter h has remained in English.

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