Rue de la Pompe
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ' N , 2 ° 17' E
| Rue de la Pompe | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 16. |
| quarter | Muette Porte Dauphine |
| Beginning | 100, Avenue Paul-Doumer |
| The End | 41, Avenue Foch |
| morphology | |
| length | 1690 m |
| width | 15 m |
| history | |
| Original names | Route départementale no. 10 |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 7544 |
At 1,690 meters long (15 meters wide), Rue de la Pompe is now one of the longest streets in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.
location
The street extends from Avenue Paul Doumer in the south to Avenue Foch in the north and runs through two quarters ; its southern part is in Muette , its northern part in Porte Dauphine . The border line between the two districts runs along the Avenues Henri-Martin and Georges-Mandel .
The street can be reached by metro , bus or RER :
Name origin
The street got its name from the pump that supplied La Muette Castle with water.
history
According to an old map by the cartographer Roussel ( plan de Roussel ), it already existed as a route in 1730. For a long time the rue de la Pompe, which runs from south to north, together with the rue de Longchamp , which runs in an east-west direction (via which one can get from Paris to the Bois de Boulogne ), the main axis of Passy . Before it was incorporated into Paris on January 1, 1860, its land was used primarily for agriculture for a long time and, in addition to a few meadows and small wooded areas, consisted of a large number of gardens in which mainly vegetables and vines were grown.
Attractions
Residence of famous people
The house with the number 1 is in the south and (viewed from there) on the left side. Here spent Brigitte Bardot part of her childhood.
Just a few steps further on the same side of the street, the French playwright François Ponsard (1814–1867) lived and died in house number 9 , after whom the little rue François Ponsard is named, which is west of rue de la Pompe on the back of number 1 –11 runs. Right next door, in house no. 11, the writer and critic Jules Janin (1804–1874) lived in a rustic country house from 1856 until his death : “It certainly takes a lot of courage to settle down in this wasteland, along a barely recognizable path . We spent the first three winters here alone, surrounded by this terrifying solitude and absolute silence. ”The street that runs east of Rue de la Pompe between numbers 12 and 32 is named after him .
In the immediate vicinity , the writer and caricaturist George du Maurier, who was born in Paris on March 6, 1834, grew up almost at the same time in a corner house with an entrance on Rue de Passy . In his novel Peter Ibbetson , which was published in 1891 and is partly autobiographical , the author reports on happy childhood days in the Rue de la Pompe : “The house, an old yellow house with green shutters and slate roofs, stood between the garden and the street; a long and curved road. ... On both sides of the street (which was called "Pump Street") were houses like the Ibbetsons' as far as the eye could see. They only differed from one another in certain small details; the garden fences were overgrown by the leaves of the trees. "
Not only his granddaughter, the writer Daphne du Maurier , was of the opinion that his descriptions bring the Passy around the Rue de la Pompe back to life: "George du Maurier," Kicky "for his family and friends, ... was a happy one little boy - at least that's what he believed when he wrote about his childhood fifty years later in Peter Ibbetson - and the smells and sounds of Paris at that time, the rattle of wheels on the cobblestones, the crack of a whip, the white dust on the corner of the Rue de la Pompe , the chestnut trees in bloom - also the smell of burnt bread, black coffee and tobacco in the warm spring air - rise from the pages of his novel ... "
George du Maurier also wistfully deals with the rapid change that occurred through the incorporation of Passy under that of Napoléon III. Georges-Eugène Haussmann appointed Prefect of Paris resulted. Twelve years after he was brought to London by his uncle as a child, his fictional character Peter Ibbetson returns to the place of her childhood: the old house on Rue de la Pompe had disappeared and was replaced by a larger building. Only the stump remained of the familiar apple tree. But the old gate and part of the old garden were still unchanged. The old hedge through whose hole he used to climb into the park behind in order to get to the Bois de Boulogne more quickly had also disappeared and the park was divided into small parcels, in whose separated gardens were now stately white villas. The familiar surroundings had changed, much to his chagrin.
A few decades later, another writer grew up on the same street, whose childhood memories are just as melancholy as Du Maurier's stories: “When I go for a walk in Passy, I feel as if I am wandering within myself, and repeatedly come across mine Childhood."
With the same sadness that Du Maurier felt almost a century before him, Julien Green also recounts the many changes that his homeland has undergone over time: “It is amazing how a quarter of a century has so completely robbed this part of the city of its charm . I know it is pointless and ridiculous to lament missing stones, but my gaze is indulgent when I turn to the fortress-shaped tenements that now occupy those heights I remember, rows of old-fashioned elegant mansions and gardens that guarded their silence and the song of their birds like treasures. ”“ And when I go down from the heights of Passy to the banks of the Seine, I sometimes wonder where I am and whether I have not dreamed. ”
Julien Green lived on the left side of the street on Rue de la Pompe (the one with the odd numbers) and attended the grammar school opposite at number 106. Because only English was spoken in the house of the son of American immigrants who was born in Paris and only English was spoken at school In French, Green referred to the Rue de la Pompe, which lies between home and school, as "my Atlantic Ocean".
The French General Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre (1852–1931) also lived opposite the grammar school in house number 115 for ten years . A little further south, also in the immediate vicinity of the Lycée Janson de Sailly , lived the actress Caroline Segond-Weber (1867-1945) from 1924 until her death under number 83 and the writer François Mauriac (1885-1970) from 1913 to 1930 in house number 89. On the ground floor of the same building, the politician and journalist Pierre Brossolette (1903–1944) ran a bookstore from October 1940 to June 1942, which served as a contact point and mailbox for members of the Resistance after the militant socialist from the Vichy regime had been banned from teaching. The composer Alfred Bruneau (1857–1934) also lived between 1910 and 1924 in house number 10, which is directly adjacent to Rue Faustin Hélie .
Special buildings
The only cultural monument on the street is at number 25 . The building was built in 1910 by the architect Lecourtois on behalf of the florist Charles Orève and impresses with its ceramic work on the front of the house. In the past there was a flower shop on the ground floor, today it houses a restaurant.
At numbers 29 and 31 (official entrance) is the Gerson Catholic private school , which functions as an École , Collège and Lycée .
The Spanish Church, built in 1898, and the Spanish Mission of the Notre Dame de la Grace de Passy congregation are located at number 51 . This is followed by the bilingual school of the Collège Frederico Garcia Lorca under number 53 , which teaches in French and Spanish.
Diagonally opposite the church is the Catholic school École La Providence Passy at number 52 , which was originally built between 1895 and 1897 as a church boarding school, which was closed in 1955. The school is under the trusteeship of the nuns who live in a neighboring building on the same property, but is run by a state-appointed director.
House number 123 houses the international private school École Active Bilingue Section Lamartine (EaB Lamartine), which teaches in French and English and also offers Spanish in the later classes. The educational institution, founded in 1954, is expected to be renamed École Internationale Bilingue (EIB) in early April 2013 .
Lycée Janson de Sailly
The high school Julien Green attended bears the name of its founder, the wealthy Parisian lawyer Janson de Sailly. In 1880 he had bought 3.5 hectares of land in the northern part of the Rue de la Pompe in order to build a school at this point (today's number 106). At the inauguration ceremony in 1884, Victor Hugo , who at that time lived just a few meters from the Rue de la Pompe, was present. With more than 3,000 students and around 350 teachers, the Lycée Janson de Sailly is not only the largest high school in Paris, it also has the best reputation. The names of his former students range from the actor Jean Gabin to the former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and the former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin .
Right next to the high school is the Rue de la Pompe metro station , which opened on November 8, 1922 and is on the route of line 9 . Your entrance is on Avenue Georges-Mandel , a few meters from Maria Callas' former residence .
Web links
References and comments
- ↑ Brigitte Bardot * 1934 / biography
- ↑ Marquis de Rochegude: Promenades dans toutes les rues de Paris par arrondissements (French)
- ^ Philippe Siguret, Bertrand Lemoine : Vie et histoire du XIVe arrondissement (Edition Hervas, Paris 1991), p. 54
- ^ George du Maurier: Peter Ibbetson (The Heritage Press, New York 1963), pp. 17f
- ↑ George du Maurier: Peter Ibbetson (The Heritage Press, New York 1963), p. VI f
- ^ George du Maurier: Peter Ibbetson (The Heritage Press, New York 1963), pp. 155f
- ^ George du Maurier: Peter Ibbetson (The Heritage Press, New York 1963), p. 154
- ↑ Julien Green: Paris (oA), p. 19
- ↑ Julien Green: Paris (oA), p. 22
- ↑ Julien Green: Paris (oA), p. 23
- ↑ Julien Green: Engagement and Exile ( Memento of July 11, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Proof of this information according to the memorial plaques published on the Commons (see web links).
- ↑ PSS-ARCHI.EU (French; accessed on February 26, 2013)
- ^ Societe (French; accessed February 26, 2013)
- ^ A b Philippe Siguret, Bertrand Lemoine : Vie et histoire du XIVe arrondissement (Edition Hervas, Paris 1991), p. 79
- ^ Official website of the Gerson private school (French; accessed on February 28, 2012)
- ↑ Notre Dame de la Grace de Passy: Paroisse Espagnole (French; accessed February 26, 2013)
- ↑ Etablissements bilingues (French; accessed on February 26, 2013)
- ↑ École La Providence Passy: Historique ( Memento of the original of May 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French; accessed February 26, 2013)
- ↑ EaB Ecole Active Bilingue - Section Lamartine ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French; accessed February 28, 2012)
- ↑ École Active Bilingue Lamartine ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French; accessed February 28, 2012)
- ↑ The French Curriculum ( Memento of the original dated November 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; accessed on February 28, 2013)
- ↑ Official website of the EAB ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English and French; accessed February 28, 2013)
