Rue Mouffetard

By on 20/08/2009 in Attractions

Rue Mouffetard Street View

Rue Mouffetard Street View

Rue Mouffetard is a street in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France.

Situated in the fifth (cinquième) arrondissement of Paris, Rue Mouffetard is one of Paris’s oldest and liveliest neighbourhoods. These days the area has many restaurants, shops, and cafés, and a regular open market. It is centered on the Place Contrescarpe, at the junction of the rue Mouffetard and the rue de Lacepede. Its southern terminus is at the Square Saint Medard where there is a permanent open-air market. At its northern terminus, it becomes the rue Descartes at the crossing of the rue Thouin. It is closed to normal motor traffic much of the week, and is predominantly a pedestrian avenue.

History

The origins of this thoroughfare are ancient, dating back to Neolithic times. As with today’s rue Galande, rue Lagrange, rue de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève and rue Descartes, it was a Roman road running from the Roman Rive Gauche city south to Italy.

From the Middle Ages a church along this section of roadway became centre of a “bourg Saint-Médard” (Saint-Médard village), and from 1724 was integrated into Paris as the main artery of the “Faubourg Saint Médard”.

The area remained relatively unchanged because of its location on the Saint Geneviève hill, which protected it from Baron Haussmann‘s redevelopment during the reign of Napoleon III. (Text Source: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia)

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