Ville l'Évêque
Ville l'Évêque was a hamlet consisting of farms west of the city of Paris in the Middle Ages .
location
It was located at the crossroads of the Argenteuil road at the site of today's Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré and another road that led from Montmartre to the Seine and approximately to the Petit Palais . The village and its surroundings correspond to today's Quartier de la Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement .
The couture l'Évêque
A hamlet began to develop in the 6th century. In the 7th century, King Dagobert I granted the Bishop of Paris the concession that earned him his name ( Villa Episcopi or "The Bishop's Estate").
This important fiefdom, which was mainly made up of couture l'Évêque , d. H. the cultivated fields of the bishop, comprised a country house with barns, farms, farmland, a harbor and a cattle trough. The privileges granted attracted peasants, artisans, and workers who formed a village that was at the center of the fiefdom.
In the 14th century, the Parisian suffragan bishop's couture , administered from the Hôtel de Sens , consisted of two parts:. One stretched along the Seine on land that previously depended on the village of Chaillot. In the 17th century it became the Faubourg de la Conference and is now crossed by the Cours-la-Reine and the Cours Albert-Ier . It was opened up from the Port-l'Évêque , the current Port de la Concorde , and was separated from the city walls of Paris by a large free piece of land, which later became the Jardin des Tuileries . The other area extended north of the first and the Chemin du Roule between the Porte Saint Honoré and the Porte Montmartre in the area of the later Quartier Richelieu , i.e. the Faubourg Richelieu and the Faubourg Saint Roch . It was bordered to the north by Rue Ménilmontant .
The Ville l'Évêque and its surrounding area thus formed the counterpart on the right bank of the Faubourg Saint-Germain downstream from Paris in the Middle Ages .
Chapel and Church of Sainte-Madeleine
The Ville l'Evêque, the simple hamlet around the court of the Bishop of Paris, became a village in the 13th century that received a parish church dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene . A first chapel, probably in the Gothic style, was consecrated in the 13th century and rebuilt in 1429.
The village experienced a great expansion in the 17th century with the construction of the Grand Cours (today's Champs-Élysées ) and the construction of numerous Hôtel particuliers .
The Sainte-Marie-Madeleine church became too small. On July 8, 1659, Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier , the Grande Mademoiselle , laid the foundation stone for a new building in the classical style at the foot of today's Boulevard Malesherbes. It was used for church services until the revolution and was demolished in 1801.
Ville-l'Évêque was incorporated into the city of Paris in 1722. A reminder of the place exists through the Rue de la Ville-l'Évêque. The current Magdalenen Church was built further east at the confluence of the Rue Royale as a counterpart to the Palais Bourbon on the other side of the Seine.
Remarks
- ^ A b Antoine Coquart, Cinquième plan de la ville de Paris, son accroissement, et sa quatriême clôture commancée sous Charles V. l'an 1367 et finie sous Charles VI. l'an 1383 , in: Nicolas de La Mare, Traité de la police , Paris, 1705.
- ↑ a b c d e http://sitelully.free.fr/villeleveque.htm
- ↑ a b c d e http://www.eglise-lamadeleine.com/histoire
- ↑ today the Quartier de Chaillot in the 16th arrondissement