Rue de Provence

Coordinates: 48°52′27.02″N 2°20′10.57″E / 48.8741722°N 2.3362694°E / 48.8741722; 2.3362694

Rue de Provence
Length 1,193 m (3,914 ft)
Width 18 m (59 ft)
Arrondissement 8th, 9th
Quarter Chaussée d'Antin. Madeleine
From Rue du Faubourg-Montmartre
To Rue de Rome
Construction
Completion 1771
Located near the Métro stations: Le Peletier, Havre - Caumartin and Trinité - d'Estienne d'Orves.
n° 34: former hotel of Thélusson
and its arch-shaped entrance (1778)

The rue de Provence is mainly in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Only the short part of the street between rue du Havre and rue de Rome is in the 8th arrondissement.

At this place was a little river called "ruisseau de Menilmontant" (Menilmontant brook). With the Parisian population increasing, this little river became the Grand Egout (great sewer) with a two-metre width in the 17th century. Letters patent of 15 December 1770 allowed the banker Jean-Joseph de Laborde to create a 30-foot wide street by covering the "Grand Egout".

"Provence" is the name of a region in the south-east of France, but the name of the street is in honour of Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, comte de Provence, king of France from 1814 to 1824 under the name of Louis XVIII.

The building of the former "One-two-two"

Notable places

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Pérouse de Montclos (dir.), Op. cit., p. 405

References

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