Rue Saint-Laurent

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Rue Saint-Laurent
location
Arrondissement 10.
quarter Porte-Saint-Denis
Porte-Saint-Martin
Beginning 127, Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin
The End 72, Boulevard de Magenta
morphology
length 150 m
width 12 m
history
Original names Rue Neuve-Saint-Laurent
Ruelle Saint-Denis
Coding
Paris 8894

The Rue Saint-Laurent is a street in the neighborhood Porte Saint-Denis and in the neighborhood Porte Saint-Martin of the 10th arrondissement in Paris , close to its train station, the Gare de l'Est , and the Church of Saint-Laurent .

location

Rue Saint-Laurent begins at number 127 on Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin and ends at number 72 on Boulevard de Magenta . In its course it crosses the Boulevard de Strasbourg . The street with a width of 12 meters and a length of 150 meters is bordered on both sides by residential and hotel buildings.

Name origin

The street takes its name from the former Enclos Saint-Laurent through which it runs and from the nearby Saint-Laurent church .

history

The street Rue Neuve-Saint-Laurent was formerly known as Ruelle Saint-Denis.

Before the opening of the Boulevard de Magenta , the street connected the Couvent des Récollets in the Enclos Saint-Lazare , Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis and passed through the Enclos . The decree of December 19, 1855 on the occasion of the opening of the Boulevard de Magenta declared the part between the Boulevard de Strasbourg and the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis to be in the public interest .

During the French Revolution the Faubourg Saint-Laurent was called “Faubourg-du-Nord”.

literature

  • Jacques Hillairet: Dictionnaire Historique des Rues de Paris. Les Editions de Minuit, Paris 1963, ISBN 2-7073-0092-6 .
  • Laure Beaumont-Maillet: Vie et histoire du Xe arrondissement . Éditions Hervas, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-903118-35-3 .

Web links

Commons : Rue Saint-Laurent  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ French Déclaration d'utilité publique : The French law provides that facilities can be taken over by official bodies and thus made accessible to the public.
  2. ↑ Noms révolutionnaires des communes de France. P. 62 , accessed on April 10, 2020 (French).

Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 31.7 "  N , 2 ° 21 ′ 29.2"  E