Passage Ben-Aïad
The passage Ben-Aïad is a roofed passageway Paris IEN located in the II {{E}} district, between the Rue Mandar with the south and the Rue Léopold-Bellan in north.
History
The Ben-Aïad Passage is the last vestige of the Passage of the Salmon .A first passage of Salmon existed on this site as of 1763, but it was then with open sky. The second passage of the same name, cover of a canopy, was built in 1828 by the architect Hubert Rohault de Fleury (1777 - 1846) on ordering of the company Rohard and Compagnie. It consisted of four alleys: a 175 meters length principal alley connected the streets Montorgueil and Montmartre. It was cut transversely by three galleries: the Mandar gallery, only existing nowadays under the name of Ben-Aïad, the gallery of the Baths and the gallery of the Living room. These two last served an establishment of baths and a Théâtre.
The passage was an important success, more by its capacity of attraction that by its situation, considering which it did not constitute particularly a short cut or a convenient connection between two streets. He was very attended until the end of the Second Empire with the attraction of sound Bal and his shops to the mode before knowing a progressive decline. The passage was the theater of riot S repressed in blood and of Barricade S June 5th and 6th 1832 at the time of the burial of the Général Lamarque, episode reported by Victor Hugo in Choses seen . The passage was acquired in February 1853 by a new owner, the general rich person Turkish Mahmoud Ben-Aïad, which was to perhaps find a resemblance to the to him Souk S of its native land. With the passing of years and of closings of shops, the passage became if not very profitable that it determined to close it and make it demolish in 1899. The Rue Bachaumont was then traced on its site. The passage is nowadays in a state of abandonment and closed with the public. Through the grid of entry, one still guesses the access to the old Baths of Salmon, transformed into “Hotel of Salmon”.
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