Rue Saint-Jacques, Paris

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Rue Saint-Jacques
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Rue Saint-Jacques and the Sorbonne
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Shown within Paris
Length1,550 m (5,090 ft)
Width16 to 20 m (52 to 66 ft)
Arrondissement 5th
Quarter Sorbonne, Val de Grâce
Coordinates 48°50′48″N2°20′36″E / 48.84667°N 2.34333°E / 48.84667; 2.34333
From79 Rue Galande
To84  Boulevard de Port-Royal
Construction
Denomination1806

The Rue Saint-Jacques is a street in the Latin Quarter of Paris.

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History

Formerly lying along the cardo of Roman Lutetia, this street was a main axial road of medieval Paris, as the buildings that still front it attest. It is the historic starting point, at no. 252, the Église Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, for pilgrims leaving Paris to make their way along the Chemin de Saint-Jacques that led eventually to Santiago de Compostela (James, Jacques, Jacob, and Iago being names of the same saint in English, French, Latin, and Spanish, respectively). However, the introduction of the Boulevard Saint-Michel, constructed through this old quarter of Paris by Baron Haussmann, relegated the roughly parallel Rue Saint-Jacques to a backstreet. [1]

The Paris base of the Dominican Order was established in 1218 under the leadership of Pierre Seilhan (or Seila) in the Chapelle Saint-Jacques, close to the Porte Saint-Jacques, on this street; this is why the Dominicans were called Jacobins in Paris. Thus the street's name is indirectly responsible for the Jacobin Club in the French Revolution getting that name (being based in a former Jacobin monastery, itself located elsewhere). Johann Heynlin and Guillaume Fichet established the first printing press in France, briefly at the Sorbonne and then on this street, in the 1470s. The second printers in Paris were Peter Kayser and Johann Stohl at the sign of the Soleil d'Or in the Rue Saint-Jacques, from 1473. [2] The proximity of the Sorbonne led many later booksellers and printers to set up shop here also.

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Notes

  1. Mullins, Edwin (2001) The Pilgrimage to Santiago, p. 3
  2. Okey, Thomas (1906) The Story of Paris. London: Dent; pp. 148–50
  3. Institut océanographique
  4. Michelin. Paris (English ed. 1976); p. 123
  5. Huisman, G. & Poisson, G. (1966) Les Monuments de Paris. Paris: Hachette; p. 210

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