A Walk Down Rue Vieille-du-Temple, Le Marais, Paris

Rue Vieille-du-Temple is an old road in the 3rd and 4th arrondissements, which is located in the heart of the Marais district of Paris.

Currently, the 855-metre-long Rue Vieille-du-Temple is located in the 3rd and 4th arrondissements, Archives, Saint-Gervais and Enfants-Rouges, and starts at 36 Rue de Rivoli and ends at 1 Rue de Bretagne.

This road was partly built in 1250.

An ancient name "Old Temple Street."
It is quoted in Le Dit des rues de Paris de Guillot de Paris in the form of "Street of the Temple".

This path was cut in half by the wall of Philip Augustus. The part then located outside Paris was successively called "Street of the Culture-du-Temple," "Rue de la Couture-du-Temple," "Rue de la Fence-du-Temple" because it led to "culture", that is, to the gardens and the fence of the Temple. In some respects, this part is also referred to as "Rue de l'Égout" and "Temple Sewer Street" because of the sewer that passed through it.

The intramural part, between Baudoyer Square and Philippe Auguste's precinct, was referred to as "Rue de la Porte-Barbette," "Rue de la Poterne-Barbette," "Rue Barbette" and "Rue Vieille-Barbette" because it led to the Barbette Hotel and the door. Barbette, located near the street of Paradis.

On November 23, 1407, leaving the Hotel Barbette (formerly located on the current street of the same name), the Duke of Orleans was assassinated in front of the present Amelot Hotel in Bisseuil (located some 180 meters away). This event marks the beginning of the civil war between Armagnacs and Bourguignons.

After the construction of the charles V enclosure, the two parts, intramural and extra-mural, of the course take are united under the name of "Old Street-of-The-Temple".

A ministerial decision of 19 germinal an VIII (April 9, 1800), signed by L. Bonaparte, sets the width of this public road at 10 meters. The slightest width of this lane was increased to 14 metres, under a royal ordinance of 23 June 1830.

In the 19th century, 940-metre-long Rue Vieille-du-Temple began at Nos. 15-17, Rue Saint-Antoine and ended at No. 1 Normandy Street and 89 St. Louis-en-Ile Street.

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