Rue Vieille du Temple

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Rue Vieille du Temple
location
Arrondissement 3rd , 4th
quarter Archives
Saint-Gervais
Enfants-Rouges
Beginning 36, rue de Rivoli
The End 1, rue de Bretagne
morphology
length 855 m
width 14 m
history
Emergence before 1270
Original names Vieille rue du Temple
Coding
Paris 9778

The Rue Vieille du Temple is a street in the Marais in Paris . It is the former street that led from the center of the city to the Commanderie du Temple . It is to be distinguished from the Rue du Temple , which begins further west at the Hôtel de Ville .

location

The Rue Vieille du Temple begins at 36 Rue de Rivoli and ends after 855 meters at Rue de Bretagne 1. In the 3rd and 4th arrondissement , it crosses the Quartier Saint-Gervais , the Quartier des Archives and the Quartier des Enfants- Blushes .

On her way she mainly crosses the Rue du Roi de Sicile, the Rue de la Bretonnerie, the Rue des Rosiers, the Rue des Francs Bourgeois , and the Rue de Thorigny (with the Hôtel Salé in the immediate vicinity).

Rue Vieille-du-Temple can be reached via the metro stations Hôtel de Ville and Filles du Calvaire .

Name origin

Rue Vieille du Temple has been leading to the Maison du Temple and its tower since the 17th century

history

Old street sign: "Vieille rue du Temple"

The street is already mentioned in the long poem ( French Poème Le Dit des rues de Paris ) by Guillot de Paris under the name "rue du Temple".

The street is therefore mentioned as Vieille Rue du Temple as early as the 13th century. Other names were:

  • Rue de la Culture du Temple
  • Rue de Couture du Temple
  • Rue de la Clôture du Temple
  • Rue de l'Égout du Temple
  • Rue de la Porte Barbette
  • Rue de la Poterne Barbette
  • Rue Barbette
  • Rue Vieille Barbette

Rue Vieille du Temple used to begin on Rue Saint-Antoine (now Rue François-Miron); the short stretch to rue de Rivoli was added to rue du Pont Louis-Philippe in 1885.

Attractions

Available

  • No. 20: Entrance to the Impasse de l'Hôtel-d'Argenson ( German  Sachgasse ... )
Entrance to the Impasse de l'Hôtel-d'Argenson with the scratching stones
  • No. 54: The Hôtel Hérouët and its oriel tower
No. 54
  • No. 87: The Hôtel Rohan (part of the Archives nationales )
  • No. 110: The Hôtel d'Hozier was built in 1623 by the architect Jean Thiriot for Robert Josselin, Seigneur de Marigny. In 1664 it was occupied and rented to various tenants until 1697. Eventually it was bought by André Bauyn de Bersan. Knight Pierre de Bersan bought it in 1731, but had to sell it to Louis Pierre d'Hozier in 1735 . The hotel has a remarkable portal designed by Antoine Fauquière. The sculptor Sandrine Follère had her workshop here from 1996 to 2005.
No. 110, Hotel Hozier.
  • No. 137: The building was built in 1777 by Jean-Louis Blève for Pierre Guérard and depicts the 5 senses in reliefs. Inside there is a fountain.

In the mid-18th century, this street was home to the Lambert Bank and the bankers Meschinet de Richemond and Garnault, whose specialties included trading in bills of exchange.

Not available anymore

  • The Hôtel d'Estouteville (right side behind the Rue des Rosiers)
  • The Porte Barbette in the city walls of King Philip Augustus (just before the Rue des Francs Bourgeois)
  • No. 52–78: The Hôtel Barbette especially for Queen Isabeau (right side between the Rue des Frans Bourgeois and the Rue de la Perle, including the Rue Barbette)
  • The Égout du Temple or Égout Courtille-Barbette (see Égouts ), a sewer that began in front of the Hôtel Barbette, ran down the street;
  • The Hôtel de Thorigny
  • No. 90: The first Théâtre du Marais (1643–1673)

In the literature

  • In Une double famille by Honore de Balzac Monsieur de Granville leaves with his wife down here.
  • In Les Comédiens sans le savoir by Honoré de Balzac, the fortune teller Madame Fontaine pursues her profession in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple.

Web links

Commons : Rue Vieille du Temple  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ French: Le dit des rues de Paris. Wikisource and Guillot de Paris
  2. a b Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos (ed.): Le Guide du patrimoine. Paris. P. 561.
  3. Danielle Chadych: Promenandes d'architecture et d'histoire. Le Marais, évolution d'un paysage urbain. Pp. 585-586.
  4. ^ Tugdual de Langlais, L'Armateur préféré de Beaumarchais, Jean Peltier Dudoyer, de Nantes à l'Isle de France. Éditions Coiffard libraire, 2015, ISBN 978-2-919339-28-0 , p. 28.
  5. ^ Honoré Balzac: Les Comédiens sans le savoir. Editions Gallimard, 1977, Collection Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Band La Comédie humaine . No. VII, ISBN 978-2-07-010874-9 .