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The Rue du Bac (French pronunciation: [ʁy dy bak]) is a street in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. The street, which is 1,150 m long, begins at the junction of the quais Voltaire and Anatole-France and ends at the Rue de Sèvres.

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Rue du Bac, Paris
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Rue du Bac, Paris
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Length1,150 m (3,770 ft)
Width20 m (66 ft) (average) between the quais Anatole France and Voltaire and the Boulevard Saint-Germain. 18 m between the Boulevard Saint-Germain and the Rue de Sèvres
Arrondissement7th
QuarterSaint-Thomas d'Aquin
Coordinates48°51′23″N 2°19′35″E
FromQuai Voltaire and Quai Anatole-France
ToRue de Sèvres
Construction
CompletionOpened between 1600 à 1610
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The Miraculous Medal. Saint Catherine Labouré is interred at 140 rue de Bac, one of the places where the Virgin Mary is believed to have appeared to her.

Rue du Bac is also a station on line 12 of the Paris Métro, although its entrance is actually located on the Boulevard Raspail at the point where it is joined by the Rue du Bac.

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History

The Rue du Bac owes its name to a ferry (bac) established around 1550 on what is now the Quai Voltaire, to transport stone blocks for the construction of the Palais des Tuileries. It crossed the Seine at the site of today's Pont Royal, a bridge constructed during the reign of King Louis XIV to replace the Pont Rouge built in 1632 by the financier Barbier.

Originally, the street was named the Grand Chemin du Bac, then Ruelle du Bac and Grande Rue du Bac.

Notable buildings

Odd street numbers

  • No. 1: Built by Auguste Rolin and C. La Horgue in 1882–83
  • Nos. 8385: Former monastery of the Immaculate Conception built in 1637. It also occupied nos. 87 and 89 rue de Grenelle [fr], onto which the garden extended.
  • No. 97: Hôtel de Ségur (also called Hôtel de Salm-Dyck). This house was built in 1722 for Pierre Henry Lemaître (also owner of the Château du Marais [fr]), perhaps by François Debias-Aubry [fr]. Some of the interior décor dates to that period. From 1786 to 1792 and from 1796 to 1798, it was occupied by Madame de Staël, who held a regular salon here.
  • No. 101: Hôtel de La Feuillade

Even street numbers

Destroyed buildings

  • No. 84: Former entrance into the garden of the Hôtel de Galliffet, which has its main entrance at 73 rue de Grenelle [fr]; marked by a massive porch that was torn down in 1837
  • No. 86: Site of the former Hôtel Dillon
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