Rue de Babylone
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ' N , 2 ° 19' E
| Rue de Babylone | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 7th |
| quarter | Invalides École-militaire Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin |
| Beginning | 46, Boulevard Raspail |
| The End | 35, Boulevard des Invalides |
| morphology | |
| length | 860 m |
| width | 15 m |
| history | |
| Emergence | Law of August 26, 1868 and certificate of February 18, 1720 |
| Original names | Rue de La Fresnaye Rue de Grenelle Chemin de la Maladerie |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 0603 |
The Rue de Babylone is a street on the Rive Gauche , the left bank of the Seine in the 7th arrondissement of Paris .
location
The street is in the Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin district of the 7th arrondissement . It flows east into Boulevard des Invalides and west into Boulevard Raspail .
The road is accessible by Metro on the station Sèvres - Babylone and metro on the station Saint-François-Xavier .
Name origin
Jean Duval (1597–1669), known as "Bernard de Sainte-Thérèse", Latin bishop of Babylon , owned several houses here.
history
It was first called “Rue de la Fresnaye”, then “ Rue de Grenelle ” or “Rue de la Maladerie ” until 1669. In 1714 there were only two houses here, the rest was a road to the city, then the border and the plain de Grenelle (Grenelle plain). On February 18, 1720, it was prescribed that it should be expanded to the city wall. 55 years later, the structures were delimited by the streets of Rue du Bac on the one hand and Rue Vaneau on the other. Louis XVIII acquired an area on which the Babylone barracks were built around 1780, where the Régiment des Gardes françaises moved in in 1780 . In 1810, Rue de Babylone was one of the streets whose numbers were red.
Notable buildings
- No. 5bis: Le Bon Marché , a Parisian wholesale store founded in 1838, is located between Rue du Bac and Rue Velpeau
- No. 29: Jardin Catherine-Laboré
The following buildings are specially protected or even registered as Monument historique :
- No. 32: Hotel de Cassini ; when it was built in 1919 by Cecil Blumenthal (called Blunt) on the occasion of his marriage to Anna Laetizia Pecci, the building was renamed Hôtel Pecci-Blunt . It houses the famous Bal Blanc (1930), where Man Ray , who left photos of the event, Méliès projects a colorful film in which the white-clad dancers were used as a screen, while Jean Cocteau composed Tableaux vivants , which show the guests as statues.
- No. 36: Park and Hôtel Matignon
- No. 49: This is where the former Babylone barracks of the Gardes françaises stood ; it was partially destroyed during the July Revolution of 1830 and reconstructed in 1934.
- No. 55: The fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent lived here from 1970 to 2008.
- No. 57: Étoile Pagoda , an oriental-style cinema
Rue de Babylone near Bon Marché .
Statue of Vierge à l'Enfant , No. 22
Entrance to the Hôtel de Cassini at number 32
Barracks of the Garde Republicaine at No. 49
Detail of the facade of the barracks
Yves Saint Laurent lived at number 55
Regional Council in No. 57
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The bishopric of Babylon was not a seat in partibus infidelium , but a real diocese. Cf. Odon Jean Marie Delarc (abbé), L'Église de Paris pendant la Révolution franc̜aise, 1789-1801 , Desclée de Brouwer, Volume 1, pp. 413-414. See also “Patriarchate of Babylon” , www.catholic-hierachy.org
- ^ Man Ray: Bal Blanc: deux femmes costumées , Paris, 1930, épreuve gélatino-argentique d'époque
- ^ Jean-Claude Dufresne, Fêtes à Paris au XX. Architectures éphémères, 1919 à 1989 , Paris, Éditions Mardaga Sprimont, 2001
- ↑ Inside Yves Saint Laurent's Paris Apartment. Anotomy of a room. In: Architectural Digest. Retrieved July 18, 2018 .