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Rue des Petits-Champs

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Rue des Petits-Champs
Rue des Petits-Champs
Rue des Petits-Champs is located in Paris
Rue des Petits-Champs
Shown within Paris
Former name(s)Rue Bautru
Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs
Length450 m (1,480 ft)
Width12 m (39 ft)
Arrondissement1st, 2nd
QuarterPalais-Royal
Gaillon
Vivienne
Coordinates48°52′01″N 2°20′10″E / 48.86694°N 2.33611°E / 48.86694; 2.33611
From1, rue de la Banque et rue La Vrillière
To26, avenue de l'Opéra
Construction
Completion1634
Denomination24 January 1881

The Rue des Petits-Champs is a street that runs through the 1st and 2nd arrondissement of Paris, France.

Location

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This one-way street, running east–west, is located between the Rue de la Banque and the Avenue de l'Opéra.

History

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It was officially created in 1634 by orders of the king during the construction of Palais-Cardinal. It was named the Rue Bautru, then the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs. In 1881, it was given its present name. In 1944, the part of the Rue des Petits Champs that extends across Opera near the Place Vendôme was renamed the Rue Danielle Casanova after a French Resistance fighter who died in 1943.

Name origin

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The street received that name because of the small fields, or the large gardens, that used to be there (petits champs meaning "small fields" in French).[1] There is a record of a street, in the same location and under the same name in the vicus de Parvis Campis (1273).[2]

Buildings of note

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The Rue des Petits-Champs is lined by several impressive mansions:

Closest transport

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Metro: Line 3 (Quatre Septembre), 1 & 7 (Palais-Royal-Musée du Louvre), 7 & 14 (Pyramides)

Bus: Lines 39 (Bus Sainte-Anne - Petits Champs), 68 21 27 95 (Pyramides)

Trivia

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References

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  1. ^ Antoine Nicolas Béraud (called Antony); Pierre Joseph Spiridion Dufey (called Dufey de l'Yonne) (1825). Dictionnaire historique de Paris (in French).
  2. ^ Jean La Tynna (1812). Dictionnaire topographique, étymologique et historique des rues de Paris (in French). J. de La Tynna.
  3. ^ Base Mérimée: Passage Choiseul et passage Sainte-Anne, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  4. ^ Jurgen Oelkers (23 October 2014). Jean-Jacques Rousseau. A&C Black. pp. 16–. ISBN 978-1-4411-5470-5.
  5. ^ David Burke (1 March 2009). Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light. Catapult. ISBN 978-1-58243-958-7.
  6. ^ "The Operation Paget inquiry report into the allegation of conspiracy to murder Diana, Princess of Wales and Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed | Report" (PDF).
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