Rue de la Bûcherie

Rue de la Bûcherie

The street in July 2021
Shown within Paris
Length	160 m (520 ft)
Width	8 m (26 ft)
Arrondissement	5th
Quarter	Sorbonne
Coordinates	48°51′11″N 2°20′43″E
From	Rue Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre
To	Rue du Petit-Pont
Construction
Completion	17th century

The Rue de la Bûcherie is a street in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France.

History

Near the cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris and the Place Maubert, between La Seine and the Boulevard Saint-Germain, the Rue de la Bûcherie is one of the oldest Rive Gauche streets. In the Middle Ages, damaged meats were salted and boiled there to feed the poorest.

In the 17th century, La Voisin, a chief personage in the famous affaire des poisons, which disgraced the reign of King Louis XIV, lived here.

Nicolas-Edme Rétif, the French novelist, lived on the Rue de la Bûcherie during the years leading to his death in 1806.

Until the late 1970s, the place was a popular Parisian street with mixed modest restaurants (Lebanese, Asian, Pakistani), antiques dealers, and art galleries. In the 1970s, the Annick Gendron contemporary art gallery was established at no. 1.

The dissection amphitheatre of the ancient Faculty of Medicine where Jacques-Bénigne Winslow taught is still located on the Rue de la Bûcherie.

Origin of the name

The name come from the ancient "Port aux bûches", a port where logs were put down.

Notable buildings

Shakespeare & Co Books at 37, Rue de la Bûcherie

• Nos. 13-15: amphitheatre of the ancient Faculty of Medicine
• No. 37: Shakespeare and Company, a bookstore specializing in English language books while simultaneously employing and boarding English-speaking writers in Paris.

Closest transport

• Métro line 10, Maubert-Mutualité, Cluny-la-Sorbonne

External links

• Le Paris pittoresque : Archives of the old Paris