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Street in Paris, France

Rue de la Bûcherie

The street in July 2021
Rue de la Bûcherie is located in ParisRue de la BûcherieShown within Paris
Length 160 m (520 ft)
Width 8 m (26 ft)
Arrondissement 5th
Quarter Sorbonne
Coordinates 48°51′11″N 2°20′43″E / 48.85306°N 2.34528°E / 48.85306; 2.34528
From Rue Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre
To Rue du Petit-Pont
Construction
Completion 17th century

The Rue de la Bûcherie (French pronunciation: [ʁy də la byʃʁi]) is a street in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France.

Near the cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris and the Place Maubert, between La Seine and the Boulevard Saint-Germain, the Rue de la Bûcherie is one of the oldest Rive Gauche streets. In the Middle Ages, damaged meats were salted and boiled there to feed the poorest.[1]

In the 17th century, La Voisin, a chief personage in the famous affaire des poisons, which disgraced the reign of King Louis XIV, lived here.[_citation needed_]

Nicolas-Edme Rétif, the French novelist, lived on the Rue de la Bûcherie during the years leading to his death in 1806.[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 Annick Gendron contemporary art gallery was established at no. 1.

The dissection amphitheatre of the ancient Faculty of Medicine where Jacques-Bénigne Winslow taught is still located on the Rue de la Bûcherie.

The name come from the ancient "Port aux bûches", a port where logs were put down.[3]

Shakespeare & Co Books at 37, Rue de la Bûcherie

Notes and references

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  1. ^ Plaisir de France
  2. ^ Alain Dautriat, Sur les murs de Paris : guide des plaques commémoratives p, 47, L'Inventaire, 1999
  3. ^ Théophile-Sébastien Lavallée, Histoire des Français depuis le temps des Gaulois jusqu'en 1830, II, project Gutenberg