Archives ¬ > Rue Dauphine, a modern street in Paris > Taxi, rue de la Chaise ! > Rue Jacob, by the wish of Queen Margot > Green Grenelle > Rue de Fleurus, caught by the night > Gros Caillou, a former countryside of Paris > Rue du Bac, Paris walks on water > Rue de Furstemberg, a small way across great History > In quest of quay Malaquais > Musée du quai Branly, a total success > Rue Bonaparte, an aristocratic way > Savorgnan de Brazza, colonizer and humanist > Who’s that « Madame » ? > La Tour-Maubourg, a family story > From small val Girard to great Vaugirard > Shade and light on La Bourdonnais > Le Flore, garden of Parisian intellectual life > Abbé Grégoire, the patois’ killer > The Quai d’Orsay, flaghsip of the french diplomacy > Alexander III Bridge, symbol of the French-Russian friendship > Rue Mazarine, tribute to a famous statesman > Sainte-Clotilde, the first neogothic church > The birth of the Faubourg Saint-Germain > The Hotel Matignon, reluctantly republican > Zadkine at home > The Rodin Museum > The strange destiny of the knight of Assas > Unesco, in search of a universal peace > The rue de Buci, a medieval legacy > The Assemblée Nationale, an aristocratic palace become republican > Saint-Sulpice, an old parish in modern Paris > Hôtel des Invalides : an hospice become pantheon > Rue du Cherche-Midi > The "Ecole militaire" or the sobriety of Mars > Saint-Germain-des-Prés, world center of arts and letters > The Orsay museum put art on the right tracks > The Institute of France: five academies under one roof > Gustave and the big tower > Ecole de Médecine - the first modern Faculty > The Catholic Institute of Paris > Le Bon Marché - The Parisians’ happiness > The ''Beaux-Arts'' > The Odeon Theatre > The Carmes Church > The Luxembourg Palace Rue Dauphine, a modern street in Paris The history of the Rue Dauphine marks a real change in Paris’ urbanism. Built in 1607 as an extension of the Pont-Neuf which was just completed, it is the first street with an alignment, which makes it straight at a time when Parisian streets liked to wind according to the whims of buildings erected without consultation. The creation of the Rue Dauphine is also marked with the seal of the royal will in front of the church. Henri IV had indeed threatened Augustine monks to fire with guns to open the passage leading to the Porte de Bussy through the lands of their convent. The dismantling of the Philippe-Auguste’s wall - still under Henri IV - also constituted an opportunity to extend the street. This extension took the name of Rue Neuve Dauphine or Petite-Rue Dauphine during a short time. First street lamps The Rue Dauphine is named after Louis XIII, son of Henri IV. The French tradition then wanted the designated successor to the throne and direct descendant of the King to be earl of Dauphiné and called ‘Dauphin’. In 1792, the street was renamed Rue de Thionville in honour of the Lorraine city which had resisted a siege of Austrian troops. The Restoration gave it its original name back in 1814. The modernity of the street has also expressed during the mid-eighteenth century, when Paris police Lieutenant General installed the first street lamps to replace old and ineffective lanterns. These prototypes then run on guts’ oil! Jean Damien LESAY