Rue de Vaugirard

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Rue de Vaugirard
location
Arrondissement 6th and 15th arrondissement
quarter Odéon
Notre-Dame-des-Champs
Saint-Lambert
Necker
Beginning 44, Boulevard Saint-Michel
The End 1, 73 Boulevard Lefebvre
, Boulevard Victor
morphology
length 4360 m
history
Coding

The Rue de Vaugirard , which crosses the 6th and 15th arrondissements , is the longest street in Paris intra muros : 4,360 meters with 407 house numbers.

Situation and accessibility

The Rue de Vaugirard begins on the Boulevard Saint-Michel at the level of the Place de la Sorbonne and ends where the Boulevard Victor and the Boulevard Lefebvre meet at the Porte of Versailles . Beyond the Boulevards des Maréchaux , it continues as Avenue Ernest-Renan . It is largely a one-way street in a south-north direction, only between the Rue de Rennes and the Place Paul-Claudel behind the Odéon - Théâtre de l'Europe .

From the Falguière metro station to the Porte de Versailles station , line 12 of the metro follows Rue du Vaugirard: Falguière, Pasteur , Vaugirard (in the center of the former village of Vaugirard ), Convention , Convention . Metro line 4 touches Rue de Vaugirard at Saint-Placide station ; the station was formerly called Vaugirard , but the name was soon changed to avoid confusion.

origin of the name

The street name refers to the old village of Vaugirard, which is now incorporated. It is a deformation of Val Gérard , based on Gérard de Moret, who was abbot of Saint-Germain-des-Prés from 1255–1278 ; in the 13th century he contributed to the development of a hamlet that was successively named Valgérard , Vaulgérard and finally Vaugirard .

history

The Rue de Vaugirard was originally a Roman road that connected Lutetia with Autricum (Chartres) . In the Middle Ages, this was the street that began at the city ​​wall of Philip Augustus (at what is now Rue Monsieur-le-Prince ) and led to Vaugirard. Until the 16th century it was a rural road, which was then included in the city from 1550. In the 17th century - in connection with the Counter-Reformation - convents were built along this street: Filles du Calvaire , Precieux Sang, Carmes déchaussés . At the beginning of the 17th century, the Palais du Luxembourg was built on the site of a mid-16th century Hôtel particulier belonging to François de Luxembourg , Duc de Piney. In the 1780s the tenant general wall was built (now Boulevard Pasteur ) and the Barrière de Vaugirard was built here at the beginning of the street. At the end of the 18th century, the Théâtre de l'Odéon was built where previously the garden of the Hôtel particulier, which belonged to the Prince de Condé , was. A law of July 2, 1844 provided for the extension of the road.

Shortly before the revolution , the Rue de Vaugirard belonged to the municipality of Saint-Sulpice . The parish reached on the right side of the rue de Vaugirard over the wall of the general tenants to about the rue Copreaux , where the parish of Vaugirard began. The left side of the street belonged to the parish of St-Étienne-du-Mont .

After the incorporation of Vaugirard on June 16, 1859, the Grande Rue de Vaugirard was officially taken over on May 23, 1863, the Rue de Vaugirard and the Grande Rue de Vaugirard were merged on April 2, 1868 to form a street more than four kilometers long. The village of Vaugirard had developed along this road, and it was not until the early 19th century that the city developed, particularly due to the urbanization of rue Lecourbe in front of the Barriére de Sèvres. At the time of incorporation, the street between the old Barriére de Vaugirard and the Porte de Versailles was built almost continuously.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the street was widened eastward to join Boulevard Saint-Michel, which runs along the Lycée Saint-Louis in front of the Sorbonne (however, this short extension is less than 1% of the length of the entire street ).

literature

  • Felix Lazare, Louis Lazare: Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments , Éditions Maisonneuve & Larose, 1855, p. 658

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Avenue Daumesnil is 6340 meters long, but only 3400 meters intra muros , because the area in the Bois de Vincennes is part of the 12th arrondissement , but lies outside the historical limits of the city.
  2. ^ Jacques Hillairet, Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris , Éditions de Minut, pp. 601-609
  3. ^ Atlas historique de Paris, Carte de la Lutèce gallo-romaine (IIIe siècle)
  4. ↑ This paragraph largely from Lazare
  5. ↑ Jean Junie, plan paroisses de Paris avec la distinction des parties Éparses qui en Dependent dressé par J. Junie, ingénieur Géographe de l'Monseigneur Archevêque et géomètre des Eaux et forêts de France en 1786, service des Travaux historiques de la Ville de Paris , 1904
  6. ^ Atlas historique de Paris, Vaugirard
  7. ↑ Cadastre révisé des communes annexées (1830-1850), commune de Vaugirard, tableau d'assemblage Toutes sections, échelle 1/10000 , cote CN / 203
  8. ↑ Decree of January 23, 1906, opening of the extension in 1911