Rue de Monceau

The is a street of the west of Paris, in VIIIe district.

History

Sees indicated to the state of way, leading to the village of Heap, within Jouvin of Rochefort (1672). The decree of April 2nd, 1868, joined together with the street of Heap, lain between the Haussmann boulevard and the place of Peru, the street of Valois of Rolls, included/understood between the place of Peru and the street of the Rock. The street of Valois of Rolls had been called street Cisalpine by decree of Thermidor 12 year VI; in 1815, it took again the name of Valois of Rolls. It was also called street of Mousseau.

Interesting places

It shelters many luxurious private mansions, frames for the majority under the Second Empire. Some of them were inhabited by big families: the Family Rothschild or the Family Camondo.

  • Museum Nissim de Camondo - 63, rue de Monceau

The private mansion of the count Moïse of Camondo (1860-1935) is the reconstitution of an artistic residence of the XVIIIe century built of 1911 to 1914 in edge of the Monceau park by the architect Rene Sergent. Brace of Camondo, impassioned collector, gathered there movable, tables, carpet, tapestries, porcelains and goldsmithery of the XVIIIe French century of an exceptional quality. With its death in 1935, it bequeaths this unit to decorative Arts and the French State in remembering his Nissim son disappeared in aerial combat at the time of the First World War so that it becomes the museum Nissim de Camondo.
  • Hotel of Camondo - 61, rue de Monceau
The frontages and roofs are classified with the inventory of the historic buildings.

External bond

  • Museum Nissim de Camondo, 63 rue de Monceau

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