Rue des Martyrs (Paris)
Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ' N , 2 ° 20' E
| Rue des Martyrs | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 9th , 18th |
| quarter | Rochechouart Saint-Georges Clignancourt |
| Beginning | 2, Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette and 64, Rue Lamartine |
| The End | 14, rue La Vieuville |
| morphology | |
| length | 885 m |
| width | 12 m |
| history | |
| Emergence | 1672 |
| Original names | Rue des Porcherons Rue du Champ-de-Repos |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 6066 |
The Rue des Martyrs is a street in the 9th and 18th arrondissements of Paris . It follows the old path that leads to the former village of Montmartre .
particularities
Since May 4, 2003, the southern part up to Rue Clauzel has been closed to motorized traffic on Sundays between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. This pedestrian zone, created as part of the Paris Respire per Arrêté préfectoral initiative n ° 2003-15505 , allows Sunday shopping in the small shops.
location
The street runs from the south in the 9th arrondissement to the north into the adjoining 18th arrondissement . The boulevard Rochechouart forms the border between the arrondissements . The southern part in the 9th arrondissement is a popular shopping street with small shops, especially many grocery stores and specialty shops. It can be reached by metro via the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette and Saint-Georges line stations .
The street starts at the intersection of Rue Notre-Dame de Lorette and Rue Lamartine, just past Notre-Dame-de-Lorette . The street crosses the Quartiers Saint-Georges and Rochechouart in the 9th arrondissement and the Quartier Clignancourt in the 18th arrondissement. The further north you follow the road, the steeper it rises. The end of the street is on Rue La Vieuville, almost next to the stairs leading to the Sacré-Cœur or the funicular, the Funiculaire de Montmartre .
origin of the name
In the 3rd century , St. Dionysius (Saint-Denis) and his followers brought Christianity to the city. The Roman governor ordered - at this time of the persecution of Christians under Emperor Decius - around 250 AD that Dionysius was the first bishop of the city to be executed together with the others.
The condemned made their way from what was then Lutetia on the left bank of the Seine (today's Latin Quarter ) to a nearby hill, the place of execution. This hill was later called Montmartre (French: "Martyrs Mountain"), a large part of this path, from the parish church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette to almost the Sacré-Cœur , is said to be identical to today's Rue de Martyrs .
After the beheading, Dionysius is said to have walked miles north with his head in his hands, where he was finally buried. It is here that Dagobert I built the Saint-Denis basilica named after the saint in the 7th century .
history
This street was first mentioned in 1672 on a “Road Map” by Jouvin de Rochefort. It was originally called Rue des Porcherons , later Rue des Martyrs, and between 1793 and 1806 also Rue du Champ de Repos .
After the construction of a city wall, the Mur des Fermiers généraux in 1785, to delimit the urban tax area, the part outside the tax area - today above Boulevard Rochechouart in the 18th arrondissement - was called Chaussée des Martyrs .
A ministerial decision of the 23rd Germinal in year IX (March 15th, 1800) signed by Jean-Antoine Chaptal and a royal decree of August 22nd, 1837 set the minimum width at 12 m. This part was reunited with the other part in the 9th arrondissement on rue des Martyrs by the Arrêté préfectoral on April 2, 1868.
Attractions
- No. 11: In 1823 this was the studio of Horace Vernet (1789–1863), then from 1823 the British painter Richard Parkes Bonington (1802–1828) worked here .
- No. 23: From November 1833 the composer Jacques Offenbach from Cologne lived here .
- No. 59: The residential area Cité Malesherbes was built in 1853 on the site of the manor house of Chrétien-Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721–1794) .
- No. 75: Le Divan du Monde , a theater hall that was known as a cabaret under the name "Divan japonais" , primarily because of the posters by Toulouse-Lautrec .
The street in culture
- François Hadji-Lazaro celebrates this street with his group Pigalle: Dans la salle du bar-tabac de la rue des Martyrs (1990)
- In the film Le Roman d'un tricheur of Sacha Guitry the road plays a role, as the narrator an evening "dans un petit café de la rue des Martyrs au nom predestine" spends.
- Mme Loisel in the novel La Parure by Guy de Maupassant lives on Rue des Martyrs.
- The house where filmmaker Claude Lelouch was born is on this street.
- Allan Kardec started his meetings here, which then became the source of spiritualism .
- When François Truffaut was a film critic, he lived in “a tiny room on Rue des Martyrs”.
literature
- Elaine Sciolino, La Dernière Rue de Paris. Enquête sur la rue des Martyrs , Éditions Exils, 2016, 237 pages, ISBN 9782912969774
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arrêté préfectoral n ° 2003-15505 ( Memento of December 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ British Museum : Works by Richard Parkes Bonington
- ↑ German in a small café in the Rue des Martyrs with a name made for it
- ↑ “une minuscule chambre rue des Martyrs” in Aline Desjardins s'entretient avec François Truffaut , Ramsay, 1987, 76 pp. 25