Rue de la Glacière

See also: Refrigerator (homonymy)

The street of the Refrigerator is located in the {{13th}} district of Paris. It begins Boulevard of Port-Royal, crosses the boulevards Arago and Auguste-Blanqui to finish Place Coluche.

The way of the Refrigerator was reproduced already on the charts of the XVIIe century, and led Paris to Gentilly while passing by the hamlet of the Refrigerator . In this area, the many ponds and ponds of the Bièvre froze the winter, and their ice was recovered then stored in built wells close and old careers heights of Montsouris to be used the summer, from where the name of Glacière . The cold ponds were also extremely snuffed skaters.

History

The street of the Refrigerator was open in its northern part in several sections in the middle of the XIXe century, and its current name was allotted to the whole of the street only in 1863, after the fastening of the Quartier of the White House in Paris in 1860.

Before 1894, it was prolonged to the commune of Gentilly, but it was re-elected on this date street of the Admiral-Mouchez.

Its progressive urbanization starting from Paris conferred diversified characteristics to him, more urban and middle-class on north, more industrial and popular in the south. A first major transformation of its neighborhoods took place during second half of the XIXe century, with the progressive drain of the Bièvre and filling partial of its valley giving rise to the streets of Tolbiac, Vergniaud, Würtz and Daviel current.

Years 1960 saw the almost complete demolition and the rebuilding of the part ranging between the boulevard Auguste-Blanqui and the place Coluche, the small island 13 and small island Bièvre , within the framework of the resorption of the Parisian unhealthy small islands.

Characteristics

  • In north, the street of the Refrigerator is prolonged by the street Berthollet, which carries out until the Rue Claude-Bernard.

  • With the crossroads with the boulevard of Port-Royal is the barracks of Lourcine, in which Léopold Sédar Senghor made part of its military service.
  • On the frontage of the n° 24, a plate recalls that Pierre and Marie Curie lived this building in 1898 when they discovered radium with the University of physics and chemistry of Paris.
  • With the 43 (a) is the Bibliothèque of Saulchoir, library of the Dominican province of France, specialized in religious sciences.
  • To the 123, church Saint-Albert the Large one built in the years 1960 on the spot where the vault of the Holy-Anguish destroyed during the restoration of the district was.

The line of drunk (Saint-Lazare Station - Stage Charléty-Carries of Gentilly Tramway) borrows it from beginning to end.

Geometry

  • Between the boulevards of Port-Royal and Auguste-Blanqui: width of 18 Mr.

  • Between the boulevard Auguste-Blanqui and the Coluche place: width of 24 Mr.

See too

Internal bonds

External bond

  • Extracts from the official nomenclature of the ways of Paris

References and notes

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