The rue de Provence is a street located in the
8th and
9th Arrondissement
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Europe
France
The 101 French departments are divided into 342 ''arrondissements ...
s of
Paris
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. It begins at the rue du Faubourg Montmartre and ends at the rue de Rome . Only the short part of the street between rue du Havre and rue de Rome is in the 8th arrondissement.
Where the road is now, there used to be a little river called "ruisseau de Menilmontant" (
Menilmontant brook). With the Parisian population increasing, this little river became the two-metre wide ''Grand Egout'' (great sewer) in the 17th century.
Letters patent
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on December 15 1770 allowed the banker
Jean-Joseph de Laborde
Jean-Joseph, marquis de Laborde (29 January 1724 – 18 April 1794) was a French businessman, '' fermier général'' and banker to the king, who turned politician. A liberal, he was guillotined in the French Revolution.
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Laborde was b ...
to create the Rue de Provence; which would cover the "Grand Egout". The width of the road was set at 30 feet, confirmed by two ministry decisions on March 20 1813 and May 21 1823.
While "Provence" is the name of a region in the south-east of France, the street is actually named in honor of Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, comte de Provence, king of France from 1814 to 1824 under the name of
Louis XVIII
Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier; 17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824), known as the Desired (), was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815. He spent twenty-three years in ...
.
In 1884, the rue de Provence absorbed the rue Saint-Nicolas-d'Antin, which extended it further west.
Notable places
* n° 22 (corner of rue Chauchat): 18th-century mansion transformed by
Samuel Bing into an
Art Nouveau
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exposition building in 1895. Sold in 1904 to the
ébénist Louis Majorelle as an exposition room. Now a post office, keeping the exterior decoration.
* n° 32: Rare example of a building built in the late 1790s.
[Pérouse de Montclos (dir.), ''Op. cit.'', p. 405]
* n° 34: The door is the only remainder of the
hôtel Thellusson built in 1778 by
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux for the widow of Swiss banker .
[ The opening of the hôtel on the rue de Provence was a huge triumphal arch. The hôtel was destroyed in 1826 when the ]rue Laffitte
Rue Laffitte is a street in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, located near the Metro stations Richelieu - Drouot and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette.
This street was created in 1771 between the Boulevard des Italiens and the Rue de Provence. Its original ...
was lengthened.
* n° 122: location of one of the most famous former lupanars, the One-two-two.
* n° 126: Building built in 1911 by Henri Sauvage and Charles Sarrazin for the French decorator Louis Majorelle.[
]
Notes
References
* Félix Lazare, ''Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments'', Paris, Imprimerie de Vinchon, 1844–1849
*
Histoire de Paris rue par rue, maison par maison
', Charles Lefeuve, 1875
* Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos (dir.), ''Le Guide du Patrimoine. Paris'', Paris, Hachette, 1994
* Félix de Rochegude, ''Promenades dans toutes les rues de Paris. VIIIe arrondissement'', Paris, Hachette, 1910
*
Rue de Provence on the web site wikiparis
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