Rue Lhomond
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The Rue Lhomond is a street in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is located in the quartier du Val-de-Grâce and has existed since the 15th century.
Origin of the name
It was once known as the Rue des Poteries after its Gallo-Roman pottery workshops (re-discovered in the 18th century), then from around 1600 as the Rue des Pots and finally the Rue des Postes.[1] It was given its present name in 1867 after the priest, grammarian and scholar Charles François Lhomond (1727-1794).
History
The street has housed several Catholic seminaries and convents, along with a British seminary established at no. 22 by permission of King Louis XIV in 1684 and active until 1790.[2]
The Rue Lhomond features in the Georges Simenon novel Maigret Takes a Room. In the novel, Maigret takes a room in a boarding house to discover who shot his subordinate Janvier.
References
- ^ Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris, Jacques Hillairet, éditions de Minuit, pp. 42-44.
- ^ Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments de Félix et Louis Lazare, facsimilé de l'édition de 1844, pp.570-571.
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