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Rue du Bac, Paris

Rue du Bac is a street in Paris situated in the 7th arrondissement. The street, which is 1150 m long, begins at the junction of the quais Voltaire and Anatole-France and ends at the rue de Sèvres.

Length

1,150 m (3,770 ft)

20 m (66 ft) (average) between quais Anatole France and Voltaire and the boulevard Saint-Germain. 18 m between the Boulevard Saint-Germain and the rue de Sèvres

7th

Saint-Thomas d'Aquin

48°51′23″N 2°19′35″E / 48.85639°N 2.32639°E / 48.85639; 2.32639

quai Voltaire, Paris and quai Anatole France

rue de Sèvres, Paris

Opened between 1600 à 1610

Rue du Bac is also the name of a station on line 12 of the Paris Métro, although its entrance is actually located on the boulevard Raspail at the point where it is joined by the rue du Bac.

History[edit]

Rue du Bac owes its name to a ferry (bac) established around 1550 on what is now the quai Voltaire, to transport stone blocks for the construction of the Palais des Tuileries. It crossed the Seine at the site of today's Pont Royal, a bridge constructed during the reign of Louis XIV to replace the Pont Rouge built in 1632 by the financier Barbier.


Originally, the street was named Grand Chemin du Bac, then Ruelle du Bac and Grande Rue du Bac.

1 : Built by Auguste Rolin and C. La Horgue in 1882-1883

83–85 : Former monastery of the Immaculate Conception built in 1637. It also occupied numbers 87 and 89 , onto which the garden extended.

rue de Grenelle

97 : Hôtel de Ségur (also called Hôtel de Salm-Dyck) : This house was built in 1722 for Pierre Henry Lemaître (also owner of the ), perhaps by François Debias-Aubry. Some of the interior décor dates to that period. From 1786 to 1792 and from 1796 to 1798 it was occupied by Madame de Staël, who held a regular salon here.

château du Marais

101 : Hôtel de La Feuillade

Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul

Bruno Pons et Anne Forray-Carlier (dir.), La Rue du Bac, Paris, Délégation à l'action artistique de la Ville de Paris, 1991 –  2-905118-33-4

ISBN

(in French)

Official nomenclature of Parisian streets

(in French)

Insecula

(in French)

www.paris-pittoresque.com