Rue Beautreillis

Rue Beautreillis

View of buildings in the Rue Beautreillis
Shown within Paris
Length	231 m (758 ft)
Width	10 m (33 ft)
Arrondissement	4th
Quarter	Le Marais
Coordinates	48°51′10″N2°21′48″E / 48.852641°N 2.363310°E / 48.852641; 2.363310
From	Rue des Lions-Saint-Paul
To	Rue Saint-Antoine
Construction
Completion	1836
Inauguration	1555

The Rue Beautreillis is a street in Le Marais, a historic area of the 4th arrondissement in central Paris, France. ^[1]

Evening view of the Rue Beautreillis

Location and access

The Rue Beautreillis, almost parallel to the Rue Saint-Paul and the Rue du Petit-Musc, begins at the Rue des Lions-Saint-Paul and ends at the Rue Saint-Antoine. It successively crosses the Rue Charles-V and the Rue Neuve-Saint-Pierre. Like many streets in old Paris, its narrow width is uneven and its buildings include traces of its long history of houses, hotels, and buildings dating from different eras.^{[ citation needed ]}

Origin of the name

The street's name, attributed in 1555, is in memory of the Hôtel de Beautreillis, which was built on the site of the Hôtel Saint-Pol, and which takes its name from the vines against the walls of the garden.^{[ citation needed ]}

History

The street is cited under the names of Rue Girard-Bocquet ^[2] and Rue de Beau-trillis in a manuscript of 1636 where the records indicate that it is "found orderly, room and full of mud and filth".^{[ citation needed ]}

By ministerial decision of 6 September 1836, the length of this road was increased from 188 m to 231 m by absorption of the Rue Gérard-Beauquet (taken from the name of the owner of the Hôtel de Beautreillis), formerly the Rue du Pistolet. ^[3]

It was at a barricade parallel to the Rue Beautreillis on the Rue Saint-Antoine that General François de Négrier was killed in June 1848.^{[ citation needed ]}

Notable buildings and events

No. 17, where Jim Morrison died in 1971

• Eugène Grangé (1810–1887) was born in the street on 16 December 1810 at the theatre there.^{[ citation needed ]}
• No. 4: Pierre Boulez (1925−2016), composer and conductor, lived there from 1945 to 1958.
• No. 6: remains of the Hôtel Raoul.^{[ citation needed ]}
• No. 7: house with wrought iron terrace (historic monument). ^[4]
• No. 16: Victorien Sardou (1831–1908), dramatist, was born there on 5 September 1831.^{[ citation needed ]}
• No. 17: Jim Morrison (1943–1971), lead singer of The Doors, died there in an apartment in the building, on 3 July 1971. ^[5]
• No. 22: Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), poet, lived there with Jeanne Duval (c. 1820–c. 1862), actress and dancer.^{[ citation needed ]}

Notes and references

1. "Rue Beautreillis". parispropertygroup.com. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
2. This is the name given to the part of the Rue Beautreillis that goes from the Rue des Lions to the Rue Charles-V, then the Rue Neuve-Saint-Paul.
3. Jacques Hillairet, Historical dictionary of the streets of Paris, Éditions de Minuit, p. 168.
4. "Île-de-France; Paris (75); Paris 4e Arrondissement; 7 rue Beautreillis". POP: la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (in French). France: Ministry of Culture . Retrieved 8 October 2020.
5. Young, Michelle (January 7, 2014). "The Apartment in Paris Where Jim Morrison Died at 17 Rue Beautreillis". untappedcities.com. Retrieved 8 October 2020.

External links

• Rue Beautreillis blog by Gaspard Landau