Rue Mouffetard
The street Mouffetard is a street 5 {{E}} district of Paris. Very old and picturesque, it is one of the axes of the Latin Quarter the most attended because of its many Restaurant S.
Long from 650 Meter S, it goes down soft inclined from the Montagne Holy-Genevieve towards the church Saint M3edard's Day.
History
It was at the 13th century a simple way which bore the name of Mons Cetarius or Mons Cetardus , in French “Mount-Cétard”, name which will be transformed thereafter into Mouffetard. It bore sometimes other names: at the beginning of the 17th century it was the street Saint-Marcel.
Small the Cemetery behind the church Saint M3edard's Day (site of the Street of Candolle), with the bottom of the street Mouffetard, was the theater at the 18th century of the curious episode of the Convulsionnaires of Saint M3edard's Day.
Until the middle of the 19th century, the street Mouffetard crossed the Bièvre close to the Saint M3edard's Day church and went back to the south until the Barrière of Italy (current Place of Italy). It then had a length of more than 1 500 meters and belonged to the 12 {{E}} district of the time. The work of Haussmann cut down it by its part more in the south to build in the place the Avenue Goblins.
Commercial context
The street Mouffetard is famous for its animation and the density of its small shops. The bottom of the street Mouffetard, up to the level where it crosses the Rue Jean-Calvin, is occupied by a daily early product market and traditional trade of proximity intended for the inhabitants of the district: market-gardening butcheries, Baker ies, , Delicatessen, grocer, quincailler.
See too
Related articles
- Church Saint M3edard's Day
- the witch of the street Mouffetard , one of the Tales of the street Broca written by Pierre Gripari in 1967.
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