 Rue La Boétie | |
  Shown within Paris | |
| Namesake | Étienne de La Boétie |
|---|---|
| Arrondissement | 8th |
| Quarter | Champs-Élysées Faubourg du Roule |
| Coordinates | 48°52′24″N2°18′44″E / 48.8732°N 2.3123°E /48.8732; 2.3123 |
| From | Rue d'Astorg |
| To | Champs-Élysées |
| Construction | |
| Completion | 29 November 1777 |
| Denomination | 2 March 1864 |
Rue La Boétie (French pronunciation:[ʁylabɔesi]; La Boétie Street) is a street in the8th arrondissement of Paris, running from theRue d'Astorg to the Avenue desChamps-Élysées. It is named in honour ofÉtienne de La Boétie (1530–1563), friend of moralistMichel de Montaigne.
From 1640, the space today found between the streets of the Colosseum and Berri, the Avenue des Champs-Élysées and the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré was occupied by the Royalnursery, which supplied the royal residences with trees, shrubs and flowers. Decommissioned under theRégence to make way for a subdivision planned byJohn Law, the plan was eventually dropped.
In 1755, the land became the property ofLouis Phélypeaux, comte de Saint-Florentin, who was thenSecretary of State of the Maison du Roi, who ceded it in 1764 to his mistress,Marie-Madeleine de Cusacque the Countess ofLangeac (1725–1778). She then sold it in 1772 to theComte d'Artois, who later became KingCharles X,Louis XVI's younger brother.
Planning approval vialetters patent was given on 29 November 1777, which allowed the prince to cut through land from the Rue d'Angoulême with a width of 30 feet (9.1 m), and to name it in honour of his eldest sonLouis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême (1775–1844). New letters patent of 4 April 1778 approved the opening of the Rue de Ponthieu, Rue Neuve-de-Berri (current Rue de Berri), Rue Neuve-de-Poitiers (current Rue d'Artois) and Rue d'Angoulême-Saint-Honoré. An alignment report was drawn up by the office of the City of Paris on 24 November 1778, allowing a ministerial decision to be taken on 6 Nivôse XII (27 December 1803), which set the width of the street to 10 metres (33 ft).
During theFrench Revolution and until 1815, the street bore the nameRue de l'Union (Union Street). It then resumed its original name until 1830, when it becameRue de la Charte (Charter Street). It then underwent a quick succession of names, becomingRue Lapeyrouse,Rue d'Angoulême once again (1852),Rue de Morny (1863),Rue de la Commune (1871),Rue Mac-Mahon and finallyRue Pierre-Charron in 1871. The area between the Place Saint-Augustin and the Place Chand-Goyon was calledRue de la Pépinière until 1868, and thenRue Abattucci.
The street took its current name in 1879, throughout its length, in honour ofÉtienne de La Boétie (1530–1563), friend moralist ofMichel de Montaigne.
| Number | Current usage | History | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Offices, including a branch ofHSBC bank | Home of couturierCharles Frederick Worth.[1] |  |
| 8 | ConfectionerLatinville. Remembered in the memoirs ofCéleste Albaret, the housekeeper ofMarcel Proust, and inNana byÉmile Zola. | ||
| 9 | Home of Anglo-American writerHenry James. | ||
| 21 | Art gallery ofGeorges Wildenstein, and laterPaul Rosenberg (1881–1959).[2] | ||
| 23 | Home and workshop of artistPablo Picasso, from 1918 to 1940. Rented for him and paid for by Paul Rosenberg. |  | |
| 26 | Home ofJacques Chabannes (1900–1994) from 1951 to 1993. | ||
| 27 | Home of the brothers Émile and Vincent Isola, directors of theThéâtre de la Gaîté-Lyrique. |  | |
| 28 | Bulgarian cultural space, inaugurated on 7 October 2004. Includes a plaque commemoratingChristo Botev.[3] |  | |
| 33 | Marcel Bernheim Gallery | ||
| 34 | Private | ||
| 41 | Home of writerEugène Sue. | ||
| 42 | Local office ofJones Lang LaSalle |  | |
| 45–47 | Salle Gaveau, a 1020-seat concert hall built in 1905–06 by the architectJacques Hermant, for the piano manufacturerGaveau |  | |
| 48 | National Federation ofCredit Agricole | ||
| 51 | La Poste - main post office for the 8th arrondissement |  | |
| 54–56 | Corporate headquarters ofSanofi S.A.[4] | Former office ofAlcatel-Lucent S.A.[5] |  |
| 55 | Pépinière La Boétie[6] | Former headquarters of theUnion for a Popular Movement (UMP), 2002 to 2011.[7] |  |
| 57 | Wildenstein Institute | Built in 1776 by architectCharles De Wailly for himself. Purchased in 1905 by Nathan Wildenstein (1852–1934), who had it revised by architectWalter-André Destailleur. Home to the Wildenstein Institute since 2011.[8] |  |
| 58 | Paris branch office of theCentral Intelligence Agency, 1948 to 2003.[9] | ||
| 59 | Gallery Denise Valtat | ||
| 66 | Home ofÉmile Fabre (1869–1955). | ||
| 88 | Saint-Philippe-du-Roule Court | ||
| 101 | Baroche Café Brasserie[10] |  | |
| 103 | Home ofLucien Napoleon Bonaparte-Wyse (1844–1909), who died in this building. Later home ofEugène Lefèvre-Pontalis. | ||
| 106–8 | Offices[11] | Former location of theCentral téléphonique Elysées. |  |
| 109 | Complex of banks and shops built in 1929–31 by architectAndré Arfvidson for the National City Bank of America | Built in 1777–78 by architectJean-Baptiste Le Boursier as the Hôtel Thiroux de Montsauge for financierThiroux de Montsauge. Renamed theHôtel de Massa. Moved stone-by-stone in 1928 and reassembled at no. 38, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Jacques. |  |
| 122 | Former home ofSadi Carnot (1837–1894), who lived here from 1882 before becomingPresident of the French Republic in 1887. Later home to composerAlfred Bruneau (1857–1934) from 1910. |
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