Rue du Bac

The street of the Vat is a street of Paris located in the 7 {{E}} district. Long 1150 meters, it leaves the quays Voltaire and Anatole-France and finishes Rue of Sevres.

Rue of the Vat is also the name of a subway station, whose exit is located on the Boulevard Raspail (line 12), to the outlet of the street of the Vat.

History

It owes its name with the vat established towards 1550 on current the Quai Voltaire and which was used for the 16th century with transport of the blocks of stone intended for construction of the Palais of Tileries, while crossing the the Seine with the site of current the Royal Pont. This one was built under Louis XIV with the site of the red bridge , built in 1632 by the Barbier financier.

Originally, the street was called main road of the Vat , then lane of the Vat and main street of the Vat .

Remarkable buildings

n° 1 : Building built by Auguste Rolin and C. Horgue in 1882 - 1883.
n°s 2-4 : Deposit and consignment office. V. Quay Anatole-France.
n° 40 : The gate of this building opens on a passage perpendicular to the street of the Vat. In bottom of piece: Hotel Play , end of the 19th century (state-owned property); in the passage: Hotel Cochin (Charles de Montalembert lived there).
n° 42 : A very pretty court, which one can admire of the Galerie Maeght, located at the ground floor of the building, and a building that Chateaubriand appreciated particularly.
n° 44 : In 1932, André Malraux composed there part of the Human condition (Prix Goncourt 1933; plate).
n° 46 : The gate, whose casements carved by Michel Varin represent the Prudence and the Loi , is a testimony of the transformations carried out for Samuel-Jacques Bernard (1686-1753), count de Coubert, wire of the famous financier Samuel Bernard, in a hotel built in 1697 - 1699 for Jean-Baptiste Voille by one of the Bunting. These transformations became great extensive starting from 1739. Initially entrusted to Louis Fourcroy († 1735), which builds in 1730 the building on street, they were probably led, in the second time, by François Debias-Aubry. The interior decoration, which included/understood sumptuous woodworks decorated with paintings of Carle Van Loo, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Jean Restout, was dispersed at the end of the 19th century. Elements were re-installed with the Musée Jacquemart-Andre, with the hotel of Pontalba (41 Rue of the Suburb-Saint-Honore) and with the castle of Be worth-the-Pénil.
n° 70 : Building of the years 1830-1840.
n°s 83-85 : Old monastery of the Immaculate Conception or Récollettes, created in 1637. It also occupied the site of the n°s 87 and 89 and the Rue of Grenelle, on which the garden extended.
n° 97 : Hotel of Ségur (known as also of Salm-Dyck ): Hotel built in 1722 for Pierre Henry Lemaître (in addition owner of the Castle of the Marsh), perhaps by François Debias-Aubry. The interior decoration goes back partly to this time. As of 1726, the hotel is yielded to the marshal's wife-duchess of Gramont, born Marie-Christine de Noailles (1672 - 1748), who there Marie her daughter with the duke of Ruffec, oldest son of Saint-Simon. At the time of the Revolution, it belongs to the Viscount of Ségur. The hotel is occupied of 1786 with 1798 (with intermittencies between 1792 and 1795 then again in 1796) by Madam de Staël. In 1809, it is acquired by the count Joseph de Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck (made prince de Salm in 1816) who makes decorate the apartment with the first stage (anteroom, living room, library) in style Empire (v. 1810) by the architect Antoine Laurent Vaudoyer and the painter Jean-Jacques Lagrenée (together preserved and classified among the historic buildings). The countess of Salm-Dyck, born Constancy of Théis, holds a famous literary living room to with it.
n° 101 : Hotel of Feuillade .
n° 102 : Hotel of Holy-Aldegonde : Hotel of first half of the 18th century.
n° 110 : In bottom of court, workshop and dwelling built in 1812 for itself by Pierre-Louis Baltard, father of the architect Victor Baltard.
n°s 118-120 : Two twinned hotels from which the courses are separated by a party wall, built in 1713 - 1715 by Claude Nicolas Lepas-Dubuisson for the company of the Foreign missions of Paris. The hotel of the n° 120 is known under the name of hotel of Clermont-Thunder , of the name of the tenant at the end of the XVIIIe century. François-Rene de Chateaubriand settled there in 1838 and died there in July 1848. The gates, which represent the four parts of the world on which the apostolate of the Foreign missions is exerted, are of an exceptional quality: they must probably with the ornementist Jean-Baptiste Tureau says Toro for the sculpture on stone of the tympanums and with the sculptor Louis Dupin, who also carried out part of the interior decoration, for the casements of the doors.
n° 128 : Foreign missions of Paris: The vault was built between 1683 and 1689 by the master mason Lepas-Dubuisson (father of the architect of the n°s 118-120). The Large home, built on the back, goes back to 1732.
n°s 136-140 : Old buildings constituting the House of the Girls of the Charity of Saint-Vincent-of-Paul.
n° 140 : Head office of the Girls of Charity and Notre Dame Vault of the Miraculous Medal, usually called Vault of the street of the Vat , where the Virgin Mary would have appeared with Catherine Labouré in 1830.

Destroyed buildings

n° 84 : Old entry on the garden of the Hotel of Galliffet , whose main entrance is 73 Rue of Grenelle. Marked by a monumental porch, it was removed in 1837.
n° 86 : Site of old the Hotel Dillon .

References

Internal bonds

Charles Loyson
Girls of Charity

External bonds

official Nomenclature of the streets of Paris
Card on the basis '' Insecula ''
Note on '' www.paris-pittoresque.com ''

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