Rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs

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Type Street
Length 373 m (1,224 ft)
Width between 12 and 20 m
Arrondissement 1st
Quarter Halles
Palais-Royal
Coordinates 48°51′45″N2°20′21″E / 48.862516°N 2.339305°E / 48.862516; 2.339305 Coordinates: 48°51′45″N2°20′21″E / 48.862516°N 2.339305°E / 48.862516; 2.339305
From 170-182, rue Saint-Honoré
To 1 bis, place des Victoires
Construction
Construction start before the 14th century

The Rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs is a street in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Name

The street was built on a land that consisted of gardens named petits champs ("small fields"). A cross (croix in French) was located next to a house in the street, near the Rue des Pélicans. [1]

History

A part of this public road was opened during the reign of Philip Augustus. In 1685, as a part of the re-organisation of Place des Victoires, King Louis XIV requested the houses of the road to be aligned to open a perspective onto his bronze statue. The part of the street affected by this decision was named Rue d'Aubusson after François, Vicomte d'Aubusson, who at the time was building an hôtel particulier on Place des Victoires. Later, the name Rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs was used for the entire road. On Germinal 3, Year X (March 24, 1802), a ministerial decision signed by Jean-Antoine Chaptal set the minimum width of the street at 10 m. The minimum width was extended to 12 m by a royal order dated May 2, 1837.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. 1 2 Lazare, Félix; Lazare, Louis. Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments (in French).
  2. Gallet, Pierre (1995). Les Architectes parisiens du XVIIIe siècle. Dictionnaire biographique et critique (in French). Paris: Éditions Mengès. p. 183. ISBN   2-8562-0370-1.
  3. Dulac, Henri (1820). Almanach des 25 000 Adresses des principaux habitans de Paris, pour l'année 1820 (in French). Vol. 1. Panckoucke. p. 25.
  4. Gabet, Charles (1831). Dictionnaire des artistes de l'école française au XIXe siècle (in French). Madame Vergne. p.  18.
  5. Minutier central, étude 55 (passim) et IAD d'Henriette Landrin (October 30th, 1823). (in French)