Historic Paris by Jetta Sophia Wolff
1713. Rue de Vanves, leading to what was in olden days the village of
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the name, crosses Rue du Château at the point where in the eighteenth
century the duc de Maine had a hunting-lodge. In Avenue du Maine we see
ancient houses at intervals. Rue du Moulin-Vert recalls the existence of
one of the numerous windmills on the land around the city in former
days. Rue de la Gaité (eighteenth century) has ever been true to its
name or the name true to the locality--one of dancing saloons and other
popular amusements. The Cinema des Mille Colonnes was in pre-cinema days
the “Bal des Mille Colonnes,” opened in 1833. Passing on up Avenue du
Maine we come to arrondissement XV.
Chapters
1. Chapter 1
2. CHAPTER I
3. 1784. They were burnt down in 1828 and replaced by the Galerie
4. CHAPTER II
5. CHAPTER III
6. 1790. More than a million bodies are said to have been buried in that
7. 1850. The beautiful portal of the ancient bureau des Marchandes-lingères
8. CHAPTER IV
9. CHAPTER V
10. 1899. Rue d’Uzès crosses the site of the ancient hôtel d’Uzès. Rue de
11. 1823. Four short streets of ancient date cross Rue de la Lune: Rue
12. CHAPTER VI
13. CHAPTER VII
14. 1882. At No. 153 was the eighteenth-century _bureau des
15. CHAPTER VIII
16. CHAPTER IX
17. CHAPTER X
18. CHAPTER XI
19. 1855. The short Rue de la Tâcherie (from _tâche_: task, work) crossing
20. 1320. Its name shortened from _mauvaise buée_, i.e. _mauvaise fumée_, is
21. CHAPTER XII
22. CHAPTER XIII
23. 1802. Here Fouquet and his son, Mme de Chantal, and the Marquis de
24. CHAPTER XIV
25. CHAPTER XV
26. CHAPTER XVI
27. CHAPTER XVII
28. CHAPTER XVIII
29. CHAPTER XIX
30. CHAPTER XX
31. CHAPTER XXI
32. CHAPTER XXII
33. CHAPTER XXIII
34. 25. Sardou in his youth at No. 26. Augustin Thierry lived for ten years
35. CHAPTER XXIV
36. CHAPTER XXV
37. CHAPTER XXVI
38. 1851. Nos. 85, 87, 89, eighteenth century, belonged to a branch of the
39. CHAPTER XXVII
40. CHAPTER XXVIII
41. CHAPTER XXIX
42. CHAPTER XXX
43. CHAPTER XXXI
44. 1860. It was a favourite street for residence in the nineteenth century.
45. CHAPTER XXXII
46. 122. Eugène Sue at No. 55. Comtesse de la Valette at No. 44, a _hôtel_
47. CHAPTER XXXIII
48. CHAPTER XXXIV
49. CHAPTER XXXV
50. 1898. Marshal Ney lived at No. 12. In Rue de la Tour des Dames a
51. CHAPTER XXXVI
52. CHAPTER XXXVII
53. CHAPTER XXXVIII
54. CHAPTER XXXIX
55. 1852. No. 73 is the Hospice des Vieillards, worked by the Petites
56. CHAPTER XL
57. CHAPTER XLI
58. 1710. That first convent and church were razed in 1797. The Carmelites
59. 1713. Rue de Vanves, leading to what was in olden days the village of
60. CHAPTER XLII
61. CHAPTER XLIII
62. 1879. She had planned filling it with her magnificent collection of
63. CHAPTER XLIV
64. 20. Rue de l’Annonciation began in the early years of the eighteenth
65. CHAPTER XLV
66. 1898. Avenue de Wagram in its course from the Arc de Triomphe to Place
67. CHAPTER XLVI
68. CHAPTER XLVII
69. CHAPTER XLVIII
70. CHAPTER XLIX
71. 1783. This name was changed more than once in subsequent years. After
72. 1850. The novelist Paul de Kock lived at No 8. No. 17 was the abode of
73. CHAPTER L
74. CHAPTER LI
75. 1751. Many names of historic note are associated with the handsome house
76. CHAPTER LII
77. 1718. It was then rebuilt minus its wooden houses. The present structure
78. 1786. Pont Notre-Dame was the “bridge of honour.” Sovereigns coming to
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