Boulevard Raspail

See also: Raspail

The boulevard Raspail is a Boulevard of the town of Paris.

Almost directed North-South, it joined the Boulevard Saint-Germain with the Place Denfert-Rochereau while crossing the 7 successively {{E}}, 6 {{E}} and 14 {{E}} districts. It crosses the axes of the Rue of Sevres, the Rue of Rennes and the Boulevard Montparnasse.

Its old name is boulevard of Hell , name which carries still today the Passage of Hell.

Origin of the name

It bears the name of the Chimiste, Médecin and man Politique François-Vincent Raspail (1794-1878).

History

The part ranging between a point located at approximately 80 m beyond the Street of Game preserve and the Rue of Sevres was bored in 1869. A section approximately a 90 m length starting from the street Stanislas had been opened by Misters Bernard brothers. The width of the part ranging between the Edgar-Quinet boulevard and the Denfert-Rochereau place was before the decree of the September 14th 1892 of 70 m and included/understood the whole of the old boulevard of Hell and the old outer boulevard (part of the boulevard of Montrouge) which had been joined together in only one way at the time of the enlarging of Paris (law of June 16th, 1859). In 1933, the widened part of the Raspail boulevard located at the crossroads of the Rue of Seek-Midday was called place Alphonse-Deville; this place included the n° 51. The covered way of Hell was annexed to the Raspail boulevard and the Boulevard Edgar-Quinet.

Monuments of interest

  • an appendix of the Banque de France to the n° 48, the angle of the Street of Babylon
  • the Hotel Lutetia (), a large hotel, with the angle of the Street of Babylon, which accommodated the deportees in 1945, with their return of the Nazi camps.
  • the École of the high studies in social sciences (EHESS) there has its buildings with the n° 54 and 105.
  • with the crossing of the Raspail boulevard and the Boulevard of Montparnasse, still called crossroads Vavin is drawn up, since 1939, the statue of Honore de Balzac by Rodin
  • the seat of “the Alliance Fran1caise (n° 101), which is an organism in charge of the diffusion of the language and culture Frenchwomen, and its Parisian school intended the abroads accomplishing a language course abroad or settling in the capital.
  • the statue of Alfred Dreyfus, for the level of the station Our-Lady-of-Fields (n°116-118), ordered by Jack Lang with the artist Tim who carries it out in 1985, it was intended for the court of the Military academy where Dreyfus had been degraded in 1895, but following the speech of Jacques Chirac of July 2006, and in order not to displease to the soldiers, it will remain finally Raspail boulevard.
  • the Fondation Cartier is since 1994 with the n° 261 in the 14th district, in a building with the architectural design avant-gardist all in Verre, Acier and Béton conceived by the architect Jean Nouvel. (Photograph)

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