Passy (French pronunciation:[pasi]ⓘ) is an area ofParis,France, located in the16th arrondissement, on theRight Bank. It is adjacent toAuteuil to the southwest, andChaillot to the northeast.
It is home to many of the city's wealthiest residents, hence its informal grouping in the Neuilly-Auteuil-Passy area. Many embassies are based in Passy.
The earliest mentions of Passy appears in the mention of a lease in villenage in 1250 by members of theCongregation of France.[1] The Château de Passy (no longer existing) had been built in 1381, later renamed to Château de Boulainvilliers in 1747. During the 14th century,King Charles V of France authorized Passy's inhabitants to enclose walls around their fields, and a century later in 1416, Passy became aLordship. In 1658, hot mineral springs were discovered near what is now Rue des Eaux where spa facilities were developed. This attracted Parisian society and English visitors, some of whom made the area, which combined attractive countryside with both modest houses and fine residences, their winter retreat, as it was located between Paris and theChateau de Versailles. It was dependent on theparish ofAuteuil until 1761. Anne Gabriel Henri Bernard de Boulainvilliers was the last lord of Passy, after he sold it to escape the guillotine.[2]
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TheHôtel de Valentinois (at that time the property of Monsieur de Chaumont) in Passy was the home ofBenjamin Franklin during the nine years that he lived in France during theAmerican Revolutionary War, when he represented American interests and sought French support for American independence.
Franklin established a smallprinting press in his lodgings to print pamphlets and other material as part of his mandate to maintain French support for the revolution. He called it the Passy Press.[3] Among his printing projects, he producedcomics he calledBagatelles[3] and passports. He developed a typeface known as "le Franklin". He also printed a 1782 treatise byPierre-André Gargaz titledA Project of Universal and Perpetual Peace, which laid out a vision for maintaining a permanent peace inEurope. It proposed a central governing council composed of representatives of all the nations of Europe to arbitrate international disputes.[4]
He also worked on his scientific projects at a laboratory he shared with others, which had been installed byLouis XV in theChâteau de la Muette.
When Franklin returned to America, the new American Ambassador to France,Thomas Jefferson, wrote: "When he left Passy, it seemed as if the village had lost its patriarch."[5] To this day, a street in Passy bears the name Rue Benjamin Franklin.
After theFrench Revolution, Passy became acommune ofSeine. The population was 2,400 in 1836, 4,545 in 1841, but larger in summer. In 1861 the population was 11,431. Passy's population was 17,594 when it was absorbed into Paris along with several other communities in 1860.[6]
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The paintingAlbert Gleizes paintingLes ponts de Paris (Passy), The Bridges of Paris (Passy), housed in the collection of the Museum Moderner Kunst (mumok), Vienna, refers to the spirit of solidarity among the newly formed "Artists of Passy", during a time when factions had begun to develop withinCubism.Les Artistes de Passy consisted of a diverse grouping ofavant-garde artistes (painters, sculptors and poets), including several who previously held meetings in 1910 at the rue Visconti studio ofHenri Le Fauconnier. Their first diner presided over by neo-symbolistPaul Fort was held at the house ofBalzac, rue Raynouard, in the presence ofGuillaume Apollinaire,Raymond Duchamp-Villon,Marie Laurencin, Henri Le Fauconnier,Fernand Léger,André Mare,Jean Metzinger,Francis Picabia, Henry Valensi, andJacques Villon.[7] Albert Gleizes chose Passy as the subject of this painting.
Passy is home to theMusée Marmottan Monet, housed in theChâteau de la Muette, and the Jardin du Ranelagh park. It is served by theRanelagh metro station.
There is now arue Benjamin Franklin and asquare de Yorktown near theTrocadéro.
A lively street in the area is Rue de Passy, which goes from La Muette to the Place de Costa Rica just behind the Trocadéro. It has boutiques and chain stores along its length.
TheCimetière de Passy, located at 2, rue du Commandant Schœlsing, is the burial place for many well-known persons including American silent film starPearl White, the paintersÉdouard Manet andBerthe Morisot, and composerClaude Debussy.
Honoré de Balzac lived in Passy for over six years,[8] and his house is now a museum (Maison de Balzac).
The apartment in whichMarlon Brando trysts withMaria Schneider inBernardo Bertolucci's 1972 filmLast Tango in Paris was located in Passy.
Notre-Dame-de-Grace de Passy, the church whereBrigitte Bardot marriedRoger Vadim in 1952.
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