Rue de Sontay
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ' N , 2 ° 17' E
| Rue de Sontay | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 16. |
| quarter | Porte Dauphine |
| Beginning | 6, Place Victor Hugo |
| The End | 174, rue de la Pompe |
| morphology | |
| length | 155 m |
| width | 15 m |
| history | |
| Emergence | 1882 |
| designation | February 12, 1886 |
| Original names | Rue Lefuel |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 8642 |
The Rue de Sontay is a 155 meter long and 15 meter wide street in the neighborhood Porte Dauphine of the 16th arrondissement of Paris .
location
The street is a one-way street and starts at number 6 on Place Victor Hugo and ends at number 174 on rue de la Pompe .
The street can be reached via the metro station , line .
Name origin
It is named Sontay ( Sơn Tây in Vietnamese), a town in Tonkin that was captured by French troops during the Tonkin Campaign in December 1883, on the eve of the Sino-French War .
history
The street was opened in 1882 and initially operated under the name Rue Lefuel , which was chosen in honor of the important French architect Hector Lefuel (1810-1880). Already in 1886 the name was changed to the name that is still valid today, with which the victorious battle of the French army in December 1883 in the North Vietnamese region of Tonkin near the city of Sơn Tây is remembered as part of the Sino-French war . The victorious French troops were led by Admiral Anatole Prosper Courbet (1827-1885), after whom a street in the immediate vicinity two blocks further south is named, which is also connected to the Rue de la Pompe.
Attractions
- No. 2: A sign on the house reminds that General Louis-Gaston de Sonis died here.
- No. 6: Apartment of the writer René de Pont-Jest (1830–1904)
