Rue de Beaujolais

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Rue de Beaujolais
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Rue de Beaujolais is located in 1st arrondissement of Paris
Rue de Beaujolais
Former name(s)Passage de Beaujolais
Rue d'Arcole
Rue Hoche
Rue de Beaujolais-Palais-Royal
TypeStreet
Length128 m (420 ft)
Width8.78 m
LocationParis, France
Arrondissement1st arrondissement
Quarter
Coordinates48°51′58″N 2°20′19″E / 48.866126°N 2.33858°E / 48.866126; 2.33858Coordinates: 48°51′58″N 2°20′19″E / 48.866126°N 2.33858°E / 48.866126; 2.33858
From43, rue de Valois
To38,

Rue Beaujolais is a street in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.

Location[]

The 128-meter-long street has an approximately east-west orientation. It starts at Rue de Valois and ends at . The vehicles can drive from west to east only.

It is equally distant from Métro stations Bourse (Line 3) and Palais Royal – Musée du Louvre (Lines 1 and 7).

History[]

The street was named after Louis Charles, Count of Beaujolais, the son of Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans.

The street was established in 1784 on a part of the former when the Duke of Orléans had the stone galleries built. At this time, the street was named Passage de Beaujolais.

Between 1797 and 1814, the street took the name Rue d'Arcole to commemorate the Battle of Arcole.[1] In 1849, it was briefly named Rue Hoche[2] after General of the Revolutionary Lazare Hoche.

Until the mid-19th century, the street was called Rue de Beaujolais-Palais-Royal several times to distinguish it from the other streets with similar names, like (disestablished 1852) and .

Remarkable buildings[]

  • No. 3: entry of the that leads to the .
  • No. 5: cabaret.
  • Between Nos. 7 and 9: that leads to inside the Palais-Royal.
  • No. 9:
    • site of the former bookshop of Thomas Aurore Armand Martainville-Delaage,[3] opened in 1812, known as the Cercle encyclopédique or Cercle littéraire encyclopédique.
    • former residence of Colette (1873–1954) and her third husband (1889-1977), from 1927 to 1929 and from 1938 to 1954. After Goudeket was freed in February 1942, he hid there until the end of the War.[4]
    • former residence of Suzanne Spaak (1905–1944).[5]
  • No. 15: Jean Cocteau stayed there in December 1939 before he left for Perpignan.[6]
  • No. 17: Le Grand Véfour, an old restaurant led by chef Guy Martin. Napoléon Bonaparte, Joséphine de Beauharnais, Victor Hugo and Colette were regular guests.
  • No. 18: former site of the nightclub Whisky à Gogo opened in 1947. Régine worked there.
  • No. 19: , that leads to the .
  • No. 20: façade of a restaurant adorned with two putti.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ de La Tynna, Jean. Dictionnaire topographique, étymologique et historique des rues de Paris (in French).
  2. ^ Hillairet, Jacques (1972) [1960]. Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris (in French). Les Éditions de Minuit. p. 164. ISBN 2-7073-1054-9. OCLC 466966117.
  3. ^ Liste générale des brevetés de l'Imprimerie et de la Librairie (1er Empire et Restauration) (pdf) (in French). Archives nationales. p. 324.)
  4. ^ Sarrot, Jean-Christophe (2005). Balades littéraires dans Paris (1900-1945) (in French). Nouveau Monde Édition. p. 155. ISBN 978-2847361032.
  5. ^ Thoraval, Anne (2007). Les Lieux de la Résistance à Paris (in French). Parigramme. p. 20. ISBN 978-2840964315.
  6. ^ Sarrot, Jean-Christophe. Balades littéraires dans Paris (1900-1945) (in French). p. 155.
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