The Rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière marks the boundary between the 9th and 10th arrondissements of Paris, the main thoroughfare of the old Faubourg Poissonnière district.
Location and access
Origin of the name
The rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière owes its name to the fact that it crossed the hamlet located outside the porte de la Poissonnerie of the surrounding wall drawn in the alignment of the rue des Poissonniers to the north and the rue Poissonnière to the south, it formed part of the chemin des Poissonniers. The faubourg was originally a district “fors le bourg” (from the old French “fors”, derived from the Latin foris “en dehors” and from borc, “bourg”, forsborc around 1200, forbours around 1260).
History
In the 17th century, the street which appears on the old plans bore the name of “Chaussée de la Nouvelle-France” because it led to the hamlet of Nouvelle-France founded in 1642 on an old vineyard.
It ran along, in its southern part of the boulevard to the large sewer (location since its covering in 1760 of the rue des Petites-Écuries), the seam of the Filles-Dieu which extended to the east to the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis, and, to the north of the rue de Paradis, the Saint-Lazare enclosure which also extended to the east to the faubourg Saint-Laurent.
In 1660, it took the name "rue Sainte-Anne", because of a chapel that had been built there at number 77 to serve the district of New France.
From 1770, Claude-Martin Goupy speculated in the Faubourg Poissonnière on land sold by the community of Filles-Dieu, of which he was the entrepreneur, playing a key role in the urbanization of the district4.
During the Trois Glorieuses, the route was the scene of confrontation between the insurgents and the troops.
On March 8, 1918, during the World War I, a bomb thrown from a German plane exploded at no. 66 rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière.
On April 1, 1918, a shell launched by the Paris Gun exploded at no. 54 rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière.
Remarkable buildings and places of memory
At No. 2 is Lycée Edgar-Poe.
No 3: location, in the second half of the 19th century, of the Bains du Gymnase, the first Parisian public bath establishment to have been raided by the morality police. The trial of the homosexuals who were arrested there took place in June 1876 (Affaire des Bains du Gymnase) before the Paris Criminal Court. No 4: the vaudevillist Nicolas Brazier lived there in 1831. No. 5: house where Colonel La Bédoyère was arrested in 1815, at Madame de Fontry's. This number was then occupied by the newspaper Le Matin. No 9: Jean-Baptiste Buffault lived there. At number 10 was the Alcazar café-concert opened in 18588 and replaced in 1899 by a four-storey commercial building designed by the architects Auguste and Gustave Perret, the first office building built in France. At number 13 was the Hôtel de Sénac de Meilhan. At no. 15 was the former Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, where his administration was based, in a vast building that stretched from rue Bergère to rue Richer today. During the Revolution, the revolutionary section of Faubourg-Montmartre met there. This is where the Convention set up the Music Conservatory in 1795. Nos 15-17: Bergère telephone exchange, also called “Provence”, built in 1911-1914 by the architect François Le Cœur. Number 25 was inhabited by Luigi Cherubini during the last years of his life. At number 26 was the Hôtel de Cypierre, since destroyed, built by the architect Jean-Benoît-Vincent Barré for Jean-François Perrin de Cypierre. Classified as a historic monument, no. 30, Hôtel Benoît de Sainte-Paulle, also known as "Hôtel Chéret" or "Akermann" and Hôtel Ney, built by Nicolas Lenoir in 1773 for François Benoît de Sainte-Paulle, on land acquired in 1172 by Claude-Martin Goupy, architect and speculator behind the creation of the district. The two courtyard wings were built in 1778 by Antoine-François Peyre. From 1779 to 1795, this hotel was the property of Marie-Louise O'Murphy, wife of François Nicolas Le Normand de Flaghac. Under the Empire, it belonged to Marshal Ney. In 1942 the design office of the Société anonyme des factories Farman was housed there, which employed the future General Jacques Collombet there that year, as an engineer. The hotel is now occupied by social housing managed by the property management of the city of Paris.