Rue du Bac, Paris
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Paris
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situated in the VIIe arrondissement
VIIe arrondissement
The 7th arrondissement of Paris is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. It includes some of Paris's major tourist attractions, such as the Eiffel Tower and the Hôtel des Invalides , and a concentration of such world famous museums as the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée du quai...
. The street, which is 1150 m long, begins at the junction of the quais Voltaire and Anatole-France and ends at the rue de Sèvres.
Rue du Bac
Rue du Bac (Paris Metro)
Rue du Bac is a station on Line 12 of the Paris Métro in the 7th arrondissement.The station opened on 5 November 1910 as part of the original section of the Nord-Sud Company's line A between Porte de Versailles and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. On 27 March 1931 line A became line 12 of the Métro...
is also the name of a station on line 12
Paris Metro Line 12
Paris Métro Line 12 is one of sixteen metro lines in Paris, France. It links Issy-les-Moulineaux in southern Paris to Porte de la Chapelle in the north. With 72 million journeys per year, Line 12 is the eleventh busiest on the Parisian Métropolitan system...
of the Paris Métro
Paris Métro
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, although its entrance is actually located on the boulevard Raspail
Boulevard Raspail
Boulevard Raspail is a boulevard of Paris, in France.Its orientation is north-south, and joins boulevard Saint-Germain with place Denfert-Rochereau whilst traversing 7th, 6th and 14th arrondissements...
at the point where it is joined by the rue du Bac.
History
Rue du Bac owes its name to a ferry (bac) established toward 1550 on what is now the quai Voltaire, to transport stone blocks for the construction of the Palais des Tuileries. It crossed the SeineSeine
The Seine is a -long river and an important commercial waterway within the Paris Basin in the north of France. It rises at Saint-Seine near Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plateau, flowing through Paris and into the English Channel at Le Havre . It is navigable by ocean-going vessels...
at the site of today's Pont Royal
Pont Royal
The Pont Royal is a bridge crossing the river Seine in Paris. It is the third oldest bridge in Paris, after the Pont Neuf and the Pont Marie.-Location:...
, bridge constructed under the reign of Louis XIV to replace the pont rouge built in 1632 by the financier Barbier.
Originally, the street was named grand chemin du Bac, then ruelle du Bac and grande rue du Bac.
Odd numbers
- n° 1 : Building by Auguste Rolin and C. La Horgue in 1882-1883.
- n°s 83-85 : Former monastery of the Immaculate Conception built in 1637. It also occupied numbers 87 and 89 rue de Grenelle onto which the garden extended.
- n° 97 : Hôtel de Ségur (also called de Salm-Dyck) : The hotel was built in 1722 for Pierre Henry Lemaître (also owner of the château du Marais), perhaps for François Debias-Aubry. Some of the interior décor dates to this period.
- n° 101 : Hôtel de La Feuillade.
Even numbers
- n°s 2-4 : The Caisse des dépôts et consignations, the public financial institution created in 1816 to control financial affairs in the public's interest. (See also: Quai Anatole-France).
- n° 40 : The door of this building opens on a perpendicular passage to the rue du Bac. Inside the passage was the Hôtel Cochin where lived Charles de MontalembertCharles Forbes René de MontalembertCharles Forbes René de Montalembert was a French publicist and historian.-Family history:He belonged to a family of Angoumois, which could trace its descent back to the 13th century. Charters carry the history of the house two centuries further...
(publicist, historian, politician). - n° 44 : In 1932, André MalrauxAndré MalrauxAndré Malraux DSO was a French adventurer, award-winning author, and statesman. Having traveled extensively in Indochina and China, Malraux was noted especially for his novel entitled La Condition Humaine , which won the Prix Goncourt...
composed a portion of "Man's Fate", or La Condition humaine (plaque). - n° 46 : Outside door has panels representing Prudence and Law sculpted by Michel Varin. The original 18th century interior had sumptuous wood paneling adorned with work by the painters Carle Van Loo, Jean-Baptiste OudryJean-Baptiste OudryJean-Baptiste Oudry was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game.-Biography:...
, Jean II RestoutJean II RestoutJean II Restout was a French painter, whose late baroque classicism rendered his altarpieces, such as the Death of Saint Scholastica an "isolated achievement" that ran counter to his rococo contemporaries.-Biography:...
. It was dispersed at the end of the 19th century. Some of its elements have been redisplayed at the musée Jacquemart-AndréMusée Jacquemart-AndréThe Musée Jacquemart-André is a public museum located at 158 Boulevard Haussmann in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The museum was created from the private home of Édouard André and Nélie Jacquemart to display the art they collected during their lives.-History:Edouard André, the scion of a...
, the Hôtel de Pontalba (rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré) and the castle of Vaux-le-Pénil (near MelunMelunMelun is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Located in the south-eastern suburbs of Paris, Melun is the capital of the department, as the seat of an arrondissement...
in Seine-et-MarneSeine-et-MarneSeine-et-Marne is a French department, named after the Seine and Marne rivers, and located in the Île-de-France region.- History:Seine-et-Marne is one of the original 83 departments, created on March 4, 1790 during the French Revolution in application of the law of December 22, 1789...
department). - n° 70 : Building from the years 1830-1840.
- n° 102 : Hôtel de Sainte-Aldegonde, built in the first half of the 18th century.
- n° 110 : Across courtyard, studio and house constructed in 1812 for himself by Pierre-Louis Baltard, father of the architect Victor BaltardVictor BaltardVictor Baltard , French architect, who was born in Paris, son of architect Louis Baltard.Until 1833, Baltard studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he garnered the Prix de Rome for designing a military school in 1833...
. - n°s 118-120 : Two hotels, separated by a "party wall", built between 1713–1715 by Claude Nicolas Lepas-Dubuisson for the Missions étrangères de Paris. The hotel at n° 120 is known as the hôtel de Clermont-Tonnerre, name of the landlord who held the property at the end of the 18th century, and where François-René de ChateaubriandFrançois-René de ChateaubriandFrançois-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian. He is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature.-Early life and exile:...
lived in 1838 and died in 1848. The doors representing the four corners of the world (the evangelical goal of the Missions étrangères de Paris) are of exceptional quality: probably the work of Jean-Baptiste Tureau. - n° 128 : Missions étrangères de Paris, an evangelical CatholicCatholicThe word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
organization : The chapel was built between 1683 et 1689 by master mason Lepas-Dubuisson (father of the architect of n°s 118-120). - n°s 136-140 : Older buildings constituting the convent Maison des Filles de la Charité de Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (mother house of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul), including the Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous MedalChapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous MedalThe Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Paris, France, is the chapel where Catholics believe that the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Saint Catherine Labouré in 1830 and requested the creation of the medal which came to be known as the Miraculous Medal...
, notable as the final resting place of St. Catherine Labouré, who was at the origin of the creation of the Miraculous MedalMiraculous MedalThe Miraculous Medal, also known as the Medal of the Immaculate Conception, is a medal created by Saint Catherine Labouré following a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary...
48.850974°N 2.323770°E. This is the address where the character Mr Klein lived in the film Mr Klein (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074916/) (1976).
Destroyed buildings
- n° 84 : Former entrance into the garden of the Hôtel de Galliffet which has its main entrance at 73 rue de Grenelle. Marked by a massive porch that was torn down in 1837.
- n° 86 : Site of the former Hôtel Dillon.