Initiated around 1720, its development was completed in the early 1760s with the entire Boulevard du Midi connecting the Esplanade des Invalides to the current Place Valhubert near the Salpêtrière Hospital.[1]
Number 34: General Henri Albert Niessel resided here from 1921 to 1955. A plaque pays tribute to him.
Number 36.
Number 35: a modern building constructed on the site of the former Hôtel de Verteillac or de Rohan, where the Princess of Léon lived in the early 20th century, mentioned by Marcel Proust. The new building housed the headquarters of the pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf until 1994, then the Île-de-France Regional Council until 2018. It was sold to AG2R La Mondiale in early 2019.
Number 36: a building erected in 1887 by the architect Charles Mewès. The Carnavalet Museum preserves an exterior view dating from 1918 and a photograph of the dining room in 1920. The Simon Course, or René Simon Drama School, long had its premises here, and thousands of apprentice actors frequented the place.