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The rue du Commerce, which was the main shopping street of the former commune of Grenelle, was formed in 1837 under the name of « rue Saint-Guillaume ».. Classified in the Parisian road system under the decree of May 23, 1863, it took the name of « rue de la Montagne-Noire » on February 1, 1877 before taking its current name by an order of March 16, 1877.
Rue du Bac is a street in Paris situated in the 7th arrondissement. 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 is also the name of a station on line 12 of the Paris Métro, although its entrance is actually located on the boulevard Raspail at the ...
1540. The Rue du Chat-qui-Pêche (transl. Street of the Fishing Cat) is considered the narrowest street in Paris. It is only 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) wide for the whole of its 29 m (32 yd; 95 ft 2 in) length. It is in the 5th arrondissement, on the Rive Gauche of the Seine, and runs from the Quai Saint-Michel to the Rue de la Huchette.
The Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis owes its name to the fact that it is an extension of the Rue Saint-Denis to the faubourg or area outside Paris's walls (as marked today by the Porte Saint-Denis). It also marked the eastern boundary of the enclos (later prison) Saint-Lazare. Historically, this street was an extremely upper-class area, occupied by ...
The street gives access to the Pont Neuf from the right bank to the south, and to the Forum des Halles from its other end to the north.. The lane continues via this last end and becomes the Rue Baltard [], closed to car traffic since the closure of the old halls of Paris, then the Rue Montorgueil, Rue des Petits-Carreaux [], Rue Poissonnière [], Rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière to end at the ...
Google Street View in Europe. In Europe, Google Street View began on 2 July 2008 with the route of Tour de France being covered in parts of France and Italy. The service has since expanded to many European countries, while at the same time has been controversial in some countries due to laws and privacy concerns.
Place Vendôme. The Rue Saint-Honoré is a street in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. It is named after the collegial Saint-Honoré church [fr], situated in ancient times within the cloisters of Saint-Honoré. The street, on which are located a number of museums and upscale boutiques, is near the Tuileries Gardens and the Saint-Honoré ...
1607-1792, then 1814. The Place Dauphine is a public square located near the western end of the Île de la Cité in the first arrondissement of Paris. It was initiated by Henry IV in 1607, the second of his projects for public squares in Paris, the first being the Place Royale (now the Place des Vosges). He named it for his son, the Dauphin of ...