Rue des Saints-Pères

The street of the Holy Father is a street of Paris. Of a 765 meters length, it marks the limit between the VIème and the VIIème district, to which belong the even numbers.

Origin of the name

Its name comes from Saint-Pierre who is the name of an old vault depending on Saint-Germain-of-Meadows which became later the vault of the hospital of Charity, today unused.

History

It was in the beginning the way of the Cows then, at the 16th century, street of Maladrerie , street of the Hospital of Charity and street of the Hotel God of Charity . Street of the Reformed Jacobins or street the Holy Father (under Louis XIII). Finally street of the Holy Father in 1652.

Remarkable buildings

n° 2 (angle of the Voltaire quay): Hotel of Tessé , built in 1768 by Pierre-Christmas Rousset and Louis Tellier for the count de Tessé, Master of the Horse of the Queen. The decoration of the large living room is with the Metropolitan Museum off Art of New York.
n° 6 (and n° 1 Street of Lille): In 1637 - 1639, Pierre Pidou makes build by the mason Sunday Wraps a hotel of which there remains only the carcass work heavy castings. Into 1753, the hotel is transformed for the marquis d' Estiau by Pierre Mouret, which carries out in particular the gate on the street of Lille and the balcony on the street of the Holy Father. New transformations are carried out for the Garnier bookstore after 1852.
n°s 7 and 7 (a) : Two hotels twinned around a common court built in 1640 for Louis de Falcony and engraved by Jean Marot. Strongly altered.
the hospital of Charity was with the site now occupied by the UFR Biomédicale of the medical college. The architect Jacques Denis Antoine had rebuilt it at the 18th century around an interior gantry where it had used for the first time the “antiquated order” of Paestum. What remained of these buildings was demolished during work of Walters and Madeline who built in 1950 the current building.
n° 28 : Hotel Pike of Saint-Prest (also known as Hotel of Fleury ), built in 1772 by the architect Jacques Denis Antoine, architect of the mint, for Jacques Frécot de Lanty, adviser with the Parliament of Paris, which resold it in the course of Charles Brochet construction of Saint-Prest. The hotel was strongly altered starting from 1831 to accommodate the National school of the Highways Departments. Vestiges of the Palais of Tileries were re-installed in the second court.
n°45 : Medical college: currently biomedical UFR of the Holy Father, depend on the university Paris V - Rene Descartes.
n° 49 : Old vault of the hospital of the Charity, built in 1732. Transform under the French revolution in room of teaching of the medicine, and equipped with a frontage by Nicolas-Marie Clavareau. Transform in 1942 in Saint-Vladimir church Large the of Ukrainian Rite.
n° 52 : Hotel of Cavoye , built in 1640 for Paul Bailly, chaplain of the king, and rebuilt in 1687 by Daniel Gittard (main building and gate on street) for the marquis de Cavoye. Private residence of Bernard Tapie.
n° 56 : Hotel of Meilleraye , built towards 1660 by Daniel Gittard. After having accommodated the National school of administration during its creation, it shelters today the Institut of political studies of Paris.

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