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Rue de Richelieu

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Coordinates:48°52′05″N2°20′18″E / 48.868046°N 2.338371°E /48.868046; 2.338371

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Street in Paris, France

Rue de Richelieu
Construction
Rue de Richelieu at the Place Mireille
Shown within Paris
Namesake	Cardinal Richelieu
Length	990 m (3,250 ft)
Width	12 m (39 ft)
Arrondissement	1st,2nd
Quarter	Palais Royal Vivienne
Coordinates	48°52′05″N2°20′18″E / 48.868046°N 2.338371°E /48.868046; 2.338371
From	2 Place André-Malraux
To	1 Boulevard des Italiens
Completion	23 November 1633 (from Place Colette to Rue Feydeau) 18 October 1704 beyond
Denomination	1634?, then 1806

TheRue de Richelieu (French pronunciation:[ʁydəʁiʃ(ə)ljø]) is a long street ofParis, starting in the south of the1st arrondissement at theComédie-Française and ending in the north of the2nd arrondissement. For the first half of the 19th century, beforeGeorges-Eugène Haussmann redefined Paris with grand boulevards, it was one of the most fashionable streets of Paris.

It is notable for theNational Library of France and for scattered coin dealers and currency changers, being near theParis Bourse, the stock market.

Name

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The street is named for theCardinal de Richelieu, chief minister of KingLouis XIII from 1624 to 1642.

The street was originally called the Rue Royale and then Rue de Richelieu soon after.^{[citation needed]} The name was changed to the Rue de la Loi in 1793 during theFrench Revolution; its name was restored to Richelieu in 1806.^[1]

Notable buildings

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Palais-Royal, a Richelieu residence (Monument historique)
Bibliothèque nationale de France,Site Richelieu, a historical building (Monument historique)
Comédie-Française, main hall (Salle Richelieu)
The oldFauré Le Page store located 8, Rue de Richelieu at the corner of the Rue de Richelieu and the Rue de Montpensier. The famous firearms played an active role to the French Revolution by distributing arms to the people in 1789 and in 1830.
The former Royal Palace Hotel, which opened in 1909 was located in the same building as theFauré Le Page store.
The birth of the croissant itself—that is, its adaptation from the plainer form of kipferl, before the invention ofviennoiseries—can be dated to at least 1839 (some say 1838) when an Austrian artillery officer,August Zang, founded a Viennese bakery ("Boulangerie Viennoise") at 92, Rue de Richelieu.^[2] This bakery, which served Viennese specialties including the kipferl and theVienna loaf, quickly became popular and inspired French imitators (and the concept, if not the term, ofviennoiserie, a 20th-century term for supposedly Vienna-style pastries). The French version of the kipferl was named for its crescent (croissant) shape and has become an identifiable shape across the world.^{[citation needed]}

Rue de Richelieu at the Place Mireille
Salle Labrouste,Bibliothèque nationale de France,Site Richelieu
The old Fauré Le Page store is located at 8, Rue de Richelieu
The Royal Palace Hotel, inaugurated in 1909
Comédie-Française

Access

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___	Located near theMétro stations: Richelieu–Drouot and Palais Royal–Musée du Louvre.

References

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^Simeone, Nigel (2000).Paris: a musical gazetteer, p. 204. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08053-7.
^The 1839 date, and most of what follows, is documented in Jim Chevallier,August Zang and the French Croissant: How Viennoiserie Came to France, pp. 3–30; for the 1838 date, seeGiles MacDonogh "Reflections on the Third Meditation of La Physiologie du goût and Slow Food"Archived 3 March 2016 at theWayback Machine (p. 8); an Austrian PowerPoint –Ess-Stile Archived 29 May 2012 at theWayback Machine – gives the date of 1840 (slide 46). A 1909 image of the bakery shows the same date for its founding, but the bakery was already documented in the press before that.^{[verification needed]}