Rue Saint-Lazare

Coordinates: 48°52′34″N 2°19′50″E / 48.876062°N 2.330426°E / 48.876062; 2.330426

Rue Saint-Lazare
Length 1,066 m (3,497 ft)
Width 11 to 36 m (36 to 118 ft)
Arrondissement 8th, 9th
Quarter Porcheron
From 9 rue Bourdaloue and 1 rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette
To Place Gabriel-Péri and Rue de Rome
Construction
Completion 17th century
Denomination 1770

The Rue Saint-Lazare is a street in the 8th and 9th arrondissements of Paris. It starts at 9 Rue Bourdaloue and 1 Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, and ends at Place Gabriel-Péri and Rue de Rome.[lower-alpha 1]

History

This street already existed in 1700 under the name of rue des Porcherons or rue d'Argenteuil, and connected the villages of Roule and Ville-L’Évêque to the village of Porcherons. In 1734 it was still only lined with few buildings.[1] The present name dates from 1770 and comes from the Maison Saint-Lazare toward which it led (via the rues Lamartine, Bleue, and Paradis) and which had been used as a leprosarium since the Middle Ages; it was converted into the Prison Saint-Lazare in 1793. It stood at the current location of no 117 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis, in the 10th arrondissement.

A ministerial decision of 12 Fructidor V (29 August 1797) fixed the minimum width of the street at 10 meters. This width was increased to 11 meters by a royal decree of 3 August 1838. An order of 3 September 1843 declared the public utility of expansion to 20 meters to the right of the properties at numbers 115-121 to create the Cour du Havre.

The Gare Saint-Lazare was built in 1837. An alley, the "Impasse Bony", created in 1826 and located at the site of the Hotel Terminus, was used for unloading luggage.[2] The Cour de Rome, in front of the station on the west side, encompassed the old "Impasse d’Argenteuil", which opened onto the Rue du Rocher.[2]

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Notes

  1. Rue Saint-Lazare once continued to the Rue du Rocher and Rue de l'Arcade.

Citations

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Sources

  • "Félix Lazare". Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments. Paris: Imprimerie de Vinchon. 1844–1849. 
  • Pérouse de Montclos, Jean-Marie (1994). Le Guide du Patrimoine. Paris. Paris: Hachette. 
  • Rochegude, Félix de (1910). "VIIIe arrondissement". Promenades dans toutes les rues de Paris. Paris: Hachette. 
  • Rustenholz, Alain (September 2006). Les traversées de Paris. Évreux: Parigramme. ISBN 978-2-84096-400-1. 

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