Quai Voltaire

The quay Voltaire is located at Paris in the 7 {{E}} district. 308 meters length, it is between the Quai Malaquais and the Quai Anatole-France which prolongs it. It starts on the level of the Rue of the Holy Father and the Pont of the Carousel and finishes on the level of the Rue of the Vat and the Royal Pont.

History

In the beginning, the Voltaire quay was only the Western part of the quay Malaquais . One gave him the name of quay of the théatins after a monastery of Théatin S there had been established in 1644 while buying, thanks to the generosity of the cardinal Jules Mazarin, a house being able to shelter twenty-five monks approximately with the site of current the n° 23 and n° 25 quai Voltaire.

In 1791, the quay took the name of quay Voltaire in homage to the writer who died there in 1778 in the hotel of the Marquis de Villette.

Since Balzac, which locates at it the mysterious shop of antique dealer of the Shagreen , the Voltaire quay shelters many antique dealers, rather specialized today in the very top-of-the-range one.

Remarkable buildings

n° 1: Hotel of Bubble towards 1630 then Hotel of Tessé (known as also of Sassenage ) built in 1768 by Pierre-Christmas Rousset and Louis Tellier for Charlotte de Béthune-Charost and her son, the count de Tessé, Master of the Horse of the Queen. The decoration of the large living room is with the Metropolitan Museum off Art of New York. By springing roof of this hotel (with the angle of the street of the Holy Father) on March 19th 1742, Jean-François Boyvin de Bonnetot (1688 - 1786), marquis de Bacqueville, tried one of the first robbery attempt human. Provided with kinds of wings fixed at the arms and the legs, it planed 300 m with the top of the the Seine before falling on a boat wash-house, breaking the thigh.
n° 3 and n° 5: Hotel the Barber then Hotel Perrault then Hotel of Briffe . There until 1733, it had there one unit connected by an underground with the other side of the street of Bourbon which was used as farmyard. The store of colors Sennelier the Colors of the quay was created in 1887 by Gustave Sennelier. It had as customers of the artists like Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin, Pissarro, Soutine, Modigliani, Kandinsky, Bonnard, Picasso and well of others. In May 2007, after having left the Elys3ee palace, the former president Jacques Chirac and his wife Bernadette settle there on a purely “very provisional” basis in an apartment lent by Ayman Hariri, wire of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
n° 7: Hotel Glucq then Hotel Choiseul-Bowsprit then Hotel of Aumont-Mazarin : Jean-Baptiste Glucq (known as Glucq de Saint Port ) there lived twice and died there in 1748. This hotel formed with the n° 3 and the n° 5 the “large house” bought by his/her parents on March 3rd 1713. In 1733, the succession of Mrs. Jean Glucq, deceased ten years before, caused the parcelling out of the property. In 1813, Louise d' Aumont, girl of the duke of Mazarin, rented the apartment of the 1st stage with Vivant Denon, writer, diplomat and amateur of Article
n° 9-11: Hotel of the President Perrault (known as also Chamillart ). Hotel of Beuvron then Hotel of Chamlay then Hotel of Vaubécourt ; Hotel of Bérulle then Hotel of Bauffremont then Hotel of Berty : Fouché, Minister for the police force of Napoleon I {{er}}, lived in this house. The painters Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Eugene Delacroix and Jean-Baptiste Corot had their workshop there. The father of Anatole France held a bookstore to with it.
n° 13: Hotel Brigallier then Hotel Moisnet then Pioust Hotel of Saint-Gilles . In the court of the building, one can still see, in height, a vestige of the Eastern frontage of the church of the théatins, pertaining to the countryside of Camillo-Guarino Guarini (towards 1663 - 1665).
n° 17: The writer Paul Bowles occupied there a studio with the autumn 1931.
n° 19: The hotel of the quay Voltaire exists since the 19th century. Charles Baudelaire wrote there the Flowers of the evil . Richard Wagner finished there the Masters Singers of Nuremberg . It also accommodated Jean Sibelius, Oscar Wilde, Camille Pissaro
n° 25: The writer Henry de Montherlant lived in this building where it committed suicide not to have to live blind.
n° 27 (angle of the Street of Beaune): Hotel of the Villette : Voltaire lived in 1778 there February with his death on May 30th. He died in a room of the second stage on court.
n°s 29-31 : Direction of the French Documentation, Service of the Hotel Matignon. Installed in a hotel of the 18th century which, deeply denatured and made almost unrecognizable, however preserves some interior decorations of quality.
n° 35 (and n° 1 Street of the Vat): In 1714, a building site was on this site. Settled there then a very run restaurant, the Café of Orsay . Later, the writer Henry de Montherlant had his practices with the brewery the Frigate .

References

Sources

Bruno Pons and Michel Borjon, the German Holy Suburb, the Quay Voltaire , Delegation with the artistic action of the town of Paris.

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