Rue Huvelin ( ar, شارع هوفلين), is a street located east of

Beirut Central District The Beirut Central District (BCD) or ''Centre Ville'' is the historical and geographical core of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. Also called downtown Beirut, it has been described the “vibrant financial, commercial, and administrative h ...

in the neighborhood of

Achrafieh Achrafieh ( ar, الأشرفية) is an upper-class area in eastern Beirut, Lebanon. In strictly administrative terms, the name refers to a sector (''secteur'') centred on Sassine Square, the highest point in the city, as well as a broader quarte ...

. The street is named after

Paul Huvelin Paul-Louis Huvelin (1873–1924), generally known as Paul Huvelin, was a French legal historian. He was a specialist in the study of the earliest forms of Roman law. Biography Huvelin spent almost all his career teaching in the law faculty of the ...

, a French legal historian who founded the law school of the

Université Saint-Joseph Saint Joseph University of Beirut ( French: ''Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth'', abbreviated to and commonly known as "USJ") is a private Catholic research university located in Beirut, Lebanon, which was founded in 1875 by French Jesuit m ...

in Beirut in 1913. The street was home to the campus of the Petit Collège and Grand Collège of

Collège Notre Dame de Jamhour , nickname = , logo = Coat_of_arms_of_Collège_Notre_Dame_de_Jamhour.gif , logo_size = 140px , image = , alt = , caption = , motto ...

before relocating in the 1950s to the mountain town of Jamhour, Lebanon. Rue Huvelin is a one-way street that runs east-west from Rue du Liban towards

Rue Monnot Rue Monnot ( ar, شارع مونو), is a street in Beirut, Lebanon. It is located east of Beirut Central District, in the Sodeco neighborhood of the Achrafieh district, and named after Father Ambroise Monnot, a French Jesuit who founded the Saint ...

, intersecting Rue Petro Trad. Some landmarks nearby are the historic Campus of Social Sciences of the

and the Saint-Joseph Jesuit Church. The street is considered an extension of

's vibrant bar and restaurant scene although on a lower scale with mainly affordable student hangouts such as, Bistrot Germanos.

In Film

Rue Huvelin is a Lebanese movie initiated, written and produced by Maroun Nassar, a veteran of the student movement. Directed by Mounir Maasri, Rue Huvelin was the filming location of a band of students fighting against the Syrian occupation in Lebanon. The movie was slightly censored for its release in Lebanon in November 2011, after it has toured at international Film Festivals: Moscow, Montreal and Sao Paulo. Rue Huvelin’s DVD is now available and sold in its integral version.

References

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