Rue du Bac, Paris
The Rue du Bac is a street on the Rive Gauche, the Left Bank of the Seine in Paris ( 7th arrondissement ). She is known for apparitions of the Virgin Mary, said to have occurred here in 1830.
Your name is derived from the taken at the lower end of the road in operation in 1550 River Ferry (French bac ), which grew in importance, as Marie de Medici architect Philibert Delorme in 1564 with the construction of the Palais des Tuileries beyond His commissioned. Instead of the laborious transport building materials from the lot to the south, quarries - today's catacombs beneath the Place Denfert -Rochereau - about the only then existing bridges and the Ile de la Cité, so to accomplish through the city center, upgraded to the stones across country by meadows and pastures in order to cross with the ferry.
The resulting grand chemin du bac ( " Big Fährenweg " ) received his Saumbebauung until 1620, initially very hesitant before the new suburb of Faubourg Saint- Germain came into fashion in the 18th century. Since then the road has been changed many times by flares and in particular the construction of the Boulevard Saint- Germain under Baron Haussmann.
Road
The grand chemin du bac followed the course of today's streets Rue Notre- Dame-des -Champs, Rue Saint- Placide and Rue du Bac. Behind the chemin de la Maladrerie (now Rue de Sèvres ), he led us past the cemetery of the Hospital Hospice des Petites Maisons. This replaced since 1557 the old, which was founded in 1497 Maladrerie Saint- Germain, was later rebuilt several times, and finally, after it had taken the name of Hospice des Petits Ménages in 1801, 1868 demolished and replaced by the Square Boucicaut. Not far away was later, from 1689 until its repeal in 1747, a cemetery, the Cimetière de la Trinité the parish of St- Sulpice de Paris.
Religious Communities
The Rue du Bac evolved, like many other streets in the former environment of Paris, through the establishment of religious communities.
From the year 1631 was built at the northeast corner of the intersection with the Boulevard Saint -Germain, the novitiate of the Dominicans. The church, designed by Pierre Bullet from the years 1682 to 1765 was rededicated after the revolution, to the parish church. A side entrance of the church of St. Thomas d'Aquin is located in the Rue du Bac (N ° 37 ).
The Recollettes or Filles de l' Immaculée - Conception -de- la- Vierge Marie were established in 1637 and until the termination of her convent in 1790 between the present streets Rue de Grenelle and Rue de Varenne. Behind it was in 1658-1708 also a monastery of Récollets.
The former Séminaire des Missions called Etrangères (Department of the Foreign Missions ), today Société des Missions Etrangères and German short Paris Mission, settled in 1663 in the Rue du Bac (N ° 128) down. A first chapel ( Chapelle de la Sainte- Famille ) replaced from 1683 the second today Chapelle St. Francois -Xavier. The seminar was, apart from the located in the rear of the garden building in which a Salle des Martyrs named hall to the missionaries remembers those who died for their faith, renewed in 1736. It was canceled after the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1792, sold in 1796 and 1805 re-established.
The monastery was founded between the present streets Rue Paul- Louis Courier and Rue de Grenelle in 1673 Couvent de la Visitation Sainte -Marie were demolished along with the first in 1775, built by the architect Hélin Church in 1796 and the terrain parceled (N ° 68-80 ).
The association of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul ( Compagnie des Filles de la Charité) came in 1815 in the possession of the Hôtel de la Vallière, where it established her mother's house, which is there today (N ° 140 ).
In the chapel of this community in 1830 the Virgin Mary appeared to the novice Catherine Laboure total of three times. These phenomena led to the spread of the " Miraculous Medal ", which in turn in many people's understanding of the 1854 proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception prepared.
The church has these phenomena with the introduction of the feast " The Blessed Immaculate received Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal ", which is celebrated as a proper party in the Vincentian Communities ( Vincentian or Vincentian, Vincentians or Merciful Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul ), confirms.
Secular buildings
As the 18th century came into fashion, the Faubourg Saint- Germain, emerged on the Rue du Bac, the Hôtel particulier listed below ( city palace ).
In 1715, named after a later owner Hôtel de la Feuillade (N ° 101 ) and the two under the double name Hôtels de Clermont- Tonnerre (N ° 118 and 120) were built renowned Palais, the latter allegedly for two bishops of the Paris Mission Seminar. There the writer Chateaubriand spent († 1848) the last years of his life.
From 1720 comes the palace, which is named after Henri -Gabriel Segur, in whose possession it was in 1795 (N ° 97).
The Hôtel de Jacques- Samuel Bernard, built in the years 1741 to 1744 the architect Germain Boffrand for the rich heirs of the same financiers (N ° 46 ).
Also in the 18th century was the 1850 by the Count of Sainte- Aldegonde inhabited and named after him Hôtel particulier (N ° 102).
Varia
- The later writer George du Maurier (1834-1896) lived 1847-1851 in this street before he had to leave Paris and move to his father in London ( see also: List of residential addresses of George du Maurier ).
- His last years were spent the inventor Étienne Lenoir (1822-1900) in the house N ° 114
- A klezmer piece of Giora Feidman is named after the Rue de Bac.