- Rue du Bac, Paris
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streetname=Rue du Bac
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arrondissement=VIIe
quarter=Saint-Thomas d'Aquin
begins=quai Voltaire, Paris and quai Anatole France
ends=rue de Sèvres, Paris
length=1150
width=20 m (average) between quais Anatole France and Voltaire and the boulevard Saint-Germain. 18 m between the Boulevard Saint-Germain and the rue de Sèvres
creation=Opened between 1600 à 1610
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caption=Rue du Bac is a street in
Paris situated in theVIIe arrondissement . The street, which is 1150 m long, begins at the junction of the quais Voltaire and Anatole-France and ends at therue de Sèvres ."Rue du Bac" is also the name of a station on line 12 of the
Paris Métro , although its entrance is actually located on theboulevard Raspail at the point where it is joined by the rue du Bac.History
Rue du Bac owes its name to a ferry ("bac") established toward 1550 on what is now the
quai Voltaire , to transport stone blocks for the construction of thePalais des Tuileries . It crossed theSeine at the site of today'sPont Royal , bridge constructed under the reign of Louis XIV to replace the "pont rouge" built in 1632 by the financier Barbier.Originally, the street was named "grand chemin du Bac", then "ruelle du Bac" and "grande rue du Bac".
Buildings of note
Odd Numbers
* n° 1 : Building by Auguste Rolin and C. La Horgue in 1882-1883.
* n°s 83-85 : Former monastery of the Immaculate Conception built in 1637. It also occupied numbers 87 and 89rue de Grenelle onto which the garden extended.
* n° 97 : "Hôtel de Ségur" (also called "de Salm-Dyck") : The hotel was built in 1722 for Pierre Henry Lemaître (also owner of thechâteau du Marais ), perhaps forFrançois Debias-Aubry . Some of the interior décor dates to this period.
* n° 101 : "Hôtel de La Feuillade".Even Numbers
* n°s 2-4 : The "Caisse des dépôts et consignations", the public financial institution created in 1816 to control financial affairs in the public's interest. (See also:
Quai Anatole-France ).
* n° 40 : The door of this building opens on a perpendicular passage to the rue du Bac. Inside the passage was the "Hôtel Cochin" where lived Charles de Montalembert (publicist, historian, politician).
* n° 44 : In 1932,André Malraux composed a portion of ("Man's Fate", or "La Condition humaine" ; plaque).
* n° 46 : Outside door has panels representing "Prudence" and "Law" sculpted byMichel Varin . The original 18th century interior had sumptuous wood paneling adorned with work by the paintersCarle Van Loo ,Jean-Baptiste Oudry ,Jean Restout . It was dispersed at the end of the 19th century. Some of its elements have been redisplayed at themusée Jacquemart-André , the Hôtel de Pontalba (rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré ) and the castle of Vaux-le-Pénil (nearMelun inSeine-et-Marne department).
* n° 70 : Building from the years 1830-1840.
* n° 102 : "Hôtel de Sainte-Aldegonde", built in the first half of the 18th century.
* n° 110 : Across courtyard, studio and house constructed in 1812 for himself byPierre-Louis Baltard , father of the architectVictor Baltard .
* n°s 118-120 : Two hotels, separated by a "party wall", built between 1713–1715 byClaude Nicolas Lepas-Dubuisson for theMissions étrangères de Paris . The hotel at n° 120 is known as the "hôtel de Clermont-Tonnerre", name of the landlord who held the property at the end of the 18th century, and whereFrançois-René de Chateaubriand lived in 1838 and died in 1848. The doors representing the four corners of the world (the evangelical goal of the "Missions étrangères de Paris") are of exceptional quality: probably the work ofJean-Baptiste Tureau .
* n° 128 :Missions étrangères de Paris , an evangelicalcatholic organization : The chapel was built between 1683 et 1689 by master mason Lepas-Dubuisson (father of the architect of n°s 118-120).
* n°s 136-140 : Older buildings constituting the convent "Maison des Filles de la Charité de Saint-Vincent-de-Paul", notable as the final resting place ofSt. Catherine Labouré , who was at the origin of the creation of theMiraculous Medal .Destroyed Buildings
* n° 84 : Former entrance into the garden of the "
Hôtel de Galliffet " which has its main entrance at 73rue de Grenelle . Marked by a massive porch that was torn down in 1837.
* n° 86 : Site of the former "Hôtel Dillon".Références
fr This article was drawn mainly from the [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue_du_bac|French wikipedia] article.
Further reading
*
Charles Loyson
* Daughters_of_CharityExternal links
* [http://www.v1.paris.fr/CARTO/nomenclature/620.nom.html Official nomenclature of Parisian streets]
* [ ttp://www.insecula.com/salle/MS02586.html "Insecula"]
* [http://www.paris-pittoresque.com/rues/35b.htm "www.paris-pittoresque.com"]Bibliography
* Bruno Pons et Anne Forray-Carlier (dir.), "La Rue du Bac", Paris, Délégation à l'action artistique de la Ville de Paris, 1991 – ISBN 2905118334
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