Rue de Vaugirard

The street of Vaugirard , with horse on the VI {{E}} and XV {{E}} districts, is the longest street of Paris, with 4 300 Mr. Apparue at the 16th century, it corresponded to the road which left the Enceinte of Philippe Auguste (on the level of current the Rue Mister-the-Prince) in direction of the village of Vaugirard. This road itself would be established on an old Roman way.

Vaugirard is a deformation of valley Girard , in homage to some abbot Girard , which had these grounds.

After the annexation of the common neighbors in 1860, it amalgamates with the grand' street of the village of Vaugirard to give a street of more than four kilometers length. It, at the time of work haussmanniens, is also prolonged towards the east to join the boulevard Saint-Michel, passing along the Lycée Saint-Louis, emerging opposite the Sorbonne (but this short prolongation represents less 1 % overall length of the street). It has its other end with the Porte de Versailles.

The street of Vaugirard is in one way of circulation on most of its way, of the periphery of Paris (birth to the junction of the Boulevards Victor and Lefebvre with the Porte de Versailles), except on the part between the Rue of Rennes and the Place of Odéon, where it is with double direction. Its classification is in opposite direction, since the small numbers are with the Latin Quarter, while numbers exceeding 400 are with the door of Versailles.

The street of Vaugirard skirts many sites of interest:

At the Porte de Versailles, it is in the vicinity immediate of the Exhibition site and of the Sport hall
It skirts the sporting installations of UREPS
It skirts the Hôpital of Vaugirard
It passes close to the Town hall of the XV° (public garden Adolphe Chérioux)
It skirts the Institut Pasteur
It skirts the Lycée Buffon close to the Pasteur boulevard (one can see on this frontage a Sundial)
It skirts the back of the Hôpital Necker between the Boulevard Pasteur and the Boulevard of Montparnasse
It skirts the Senate and the Jardin of Luxembourg on a side and the Théâtre of Odéon of the other
It skirts the Lycée Saint-Louis, reaching the Boulevard Saint-Michel opposite the Sorbonne

The subway station Vaugirard , on the line 12, is located in the middle same of the old village. To note that the Saint-Placid station , on the line 4, was also called Vaugirard in the beginning but quickly name changed to avoid confusions.

To the 104, a boarding school of the fathers Marists was whom attended in the years 1930, François Mitterrand, Pierre Bénouville, André Bettencourt and Claude Roy.

The street of Vaugirard shelters a good part of the line 12 of the subway:

Voluntary Porte de Versailles
Convention
Vaugirard
Pasteur (crossing with the line 6, which leaves ground to this place)
Falguière
Placid Saint (line 4)

See too

Vaugirard is also the old name of the National school of Photo Cinema today 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure Louis Lumière *La street Vaugirard belongs to the sites to be bought in the play of Monopoly

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