Rue de Poitiers

The street of Poitiers is a street of the 7 {{E}} district of Paris. Long and broad, it 112 12 meters meters starts on the level of the n° 59 Street of Lille and finishes on the level of the n° 66 street of the University.

History

Called thus since the 17th century, the street name comes from a hotel built in 1640, for Dame Catherine Potiers, whose name, deformed in “Poitiers”, passed to the street.

The street formerly began quay of Orsay, but the fraction ranging between the quay and the street of Lille was absorbed in the Gare of Orsay.

Under the Second Republic, in a room of the Academy of medicine located street of Poitiers, meets in 1848 the “party of the order”, also indicated name of “Committee of the street of Poitiers”, joining together the lines previously divided, legitimists and orleanists.

Remarkable buildings

n° 10: Hotel of Pomereu : V. n°s 63-67 Street of Lille.
n° 12: Hotel of Poulpry : Shelter today the Maison of Polytechniciens. Built at the origin in 1640 for Catherine Potiers, the hotel was acquired and transformed into 1703 by president François Duret, president with the Grand the Council and important real-estate speculator in the district. The hotel passed then to the Monaco-Valentinois family. Damaged by a fire, it was acquired by Mister of Béraudière, guard of the painter Watteau, and also sheltered the family of Luynes. In 1766, the hotel became the property of the marquis de Poulpry, general Lieutenant. Confiscated like good of emigrant under the Revolution, it became the seat of the committee of the section of Fountain-of-Grenelle, then of the municipality. In 1820, the baron Portal installed there the Académie of medicine which remained there until in 1848. In 1919, the hotel was rented with the “Club of the French Rebirth” founded by “Association for the National Restoration”. In 1923, the public limit company “the House of Polytechniciens” rented it, before acquiring of it the May 7th 1930.

External bond

Extracts from the official nomenclature of the ways of Paris

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