Rue de la Bûcherie is a street in the

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History

Near the cathedral

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and the

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, between La Seine and

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Rue de la Bûcherie is one of the oldest

Rive Gauche The Rive Gauche (, ''Left Bank'') is the southern bank of the river Seine in Paris. Here the river flows roughly westward, cutting the city in two parts. When facing downstream, the southern bank is to the left, and the northern bank (or ''Rive D ...

streets. In the

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damaged meats were salted and boiled here to feed the poorest.Plaisir de France In the 17th century,

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, a chief personage in the famous '' affaire des poisons'', which disgraced the reign of

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, lived here.

Nicolas-Edme Rétif Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne, born Nicolas-Edme Rétif or Nicolas-Edme Restif (; 23 October 1734 – 3 February 1806), also known as Rétif, was a French novelist. The term '' retifism'' for shoe fetishism was named after him (an early nov ...

, the French

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, lived on Rue de la Bûcherie during the years leading to his death in 1806.Alain Dautriat,
Sur les murs de Paris : guide des plaques commémoratives p, 47
', L'Inventaire, 1999 Until the late 1970s the place was a popular Parisian street with mixed modest restaurants (Lebanese, Asian, Pakistani), antiques dealers, and art galleries. In the 1970s the Annick Gendron contemporary art gallery was established at no. 1. The dissection amphitheatre of the ancient Faculty of Medicine where

Jacques-Bénigne Winslow Jacob Benignus Winsløw, also known as Jacques-Bénigne Winslow (17 April 1669 – 3 April 1760), was a Danish-born French anatomist. Life Winsløw was born in Odense, Denmark. Later he became a pupil and successor of Guichard Joseph Duverney, ...

taught is still located on Rue de la Bûcherie.

Origin of the name

The name come from the ancient "Port aux bûches", a port where logs were put down.Théophile-Sébastien Lavallée,
Histoire des Français depuis le temps des Gaulois jusqu'en 1830
', II,

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Buildings of note

* 13-15 - amphitheatre of the ancient Faculty of Medicine Shakespeare & Co Books, Paris April 2011

* 37 - Shakespeare and Company, a bookstore specializing in English language books while simultaneously employing and boarding English-speaking writers in Paris.

Closest transport

* Métro line 10, Maubert-Mutualité, Cluny-la-Sorbonne

Notes and references

External links

''Le Paris pittoresque''
: Archives of the old Paris {{Parisstreetcat2, 5, Bucherie