Rue des Petits-Champs

Rue des Petits-Champs is a street which runs through the 1st and 2nd arrondissement of Paris, France.

Rue des Petits-Champs
Rue des Petits-Champs
Shown within Paris
Former name(s)Rue Bautru
Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs
Length450 m (1,480 ft)
Width12 m (39 ft)
Arrondissement1st, 2nd
QuarterPalais-Royal
Gaillon
Vivienne
Coordinates48°52′01″N 2°20′10″E
From1, rue de la Banque et rue La Vrillière
To26, avenue de l'Opéra
Construction
Completion1634
Denomination24 January 1881

Location

This one-way street, running east-west, is located between rue de la Banque and Avenue de l'Opera.

History

It was officially created in 1634 by orders of the king during the construction of Palais-Cardinal, it was named "rue Bautru" then "rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs", In 1881 it was given its present name. In 1944, the part of rue des Petits Champs which extends across Opera near the Place Vendome was renamed rue Danielle Casanova after a French Resistance fighter who died in 1943.

Name origin

The street received that name because of the small fields, or the large gardens. that used to be there (petits champs meaning small fields in French).[1] There is a record of a street, in the same location and under the same name in the vicus de Parvis Campis (1273).[2]

Buildings of note

Rue des Petits-Champs is lined by several impressive mansions:

Closest transport

Metro: Line 3 (Quatre Septembre), 1 & 7 (Palais-Royal-Musée du Louvre), 7 & 14 (Pyramides)

Bus: Lines 39 (Bus Sainte-Anne - Petits Champs), 68 21 27 95 (Pyramides)

Trivia

References

  1. Antoine Nicolas Béraud (called Antony); Pierre Joseph Spiridion Dufey (called Dufey de l'Yonne) (1825). Dictionnaire historique de Paris (in French).
  2. Jean La Tynna (1812). Dictionnaire topographique, étymologique et historique des rues de Paris (in French). J. de La Tynna.
  3. "Monuments historiques: Passage Choiseul et passage Sainte-Anne".
  4. Jurgen Oelkers (23 October 2014). Jean-Jacques Rousseau. A&C Black. pp. 16–. ISBN 978-1-4411-5470-5.
  5. David Burke (1 March 2009). Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light. Catapult. ISBN 978-1-58243-958-7.
  6. (PDF) https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/news/nol/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/14_12_06_diana_report.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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