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| Arrondissement | Ve |
| Quarter | Sorbonne |
| Begins | Rue Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre |
| Ends | Rue du Petit-Pont |
| Length | 160 m |
| Width | 8 m |
| Creation | 17th century |
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Rue de la Bûcherie is a street in Paris, France.
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Near the cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris and the Place Maubert, between La Seine and Boulevard Saint-Germain The Rue de la Bûcherie is one of Paris' oldest Rive Gauche streets. In the middle ages it was a street where damaged meats were salted and boiled to feed the most humble and miserable inhabitants of Paris[1].
In the 17th century, La Voisin, a chief personage in the famous affaire des poisons, which disgraced the reign of Louis XIV, lived here [needs citation].
Nicolas-Edme Rétif, the French novelist, lived on Rue de la Bûcherie during the years leading to his death in 1808[2].
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 contemporary art gallery Galerie Annick Gendron took place at the 1 rue de la Bûcherie.
The dissection amphitheatre of the ancient Faculty of Medicine where Jacques-Bénigne Winslow taught is still located on Rue de la Bûcherie.
The name come from the ancient— Port aux bûches — port's logs where logs were put down.