Rue Lhomond is a street in the
5th arrondissement of
Paris
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,
France
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. It is located in the
quartier du Val-de-Grâce
The quartier du Val-de-Grâce is the 19th administrative district or 'quartier' of Paris, located in the 5th arrondissement of the city. Its borders are boulevard de Port-Royal to the south, boulevard Saint-Michel to the west, rue Soufflot, rue ...
and has existed since the 15th century. It was once known as ''rue des Poteries'' after its
Gallo-Roman
Gallo-Roman culture was a consequence of the Romanization of Gauls under the rule of the Roman Empire. It was characterized by the Gaulish adoption or adaptation of Roman culture, language, morals and way of life in a uniquely Gaulish context ...
pottery workshops (re-discovered in the 18th century), then from around 1600 as ''rue des Pots'' and finally ''rue des Postes''. It was given its present name in 1867 after the priest, grammarian and scholar
Charles François Lhomond
Charles François Lhomond (; 1727 – December 31, 1794) was a French priest, grammarian, and educator who was a native of Chaulnes, Somme.
He attended classes at the Collège d'Inville in Paris, where he subsequently became dean of the school. ...
(1727-1794).
History
The street has housed several Catholic seminaries and convents, along with a British seminary established at number 22 by permission of
Louis XIV of France
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
, death_date =
, death_place = Palace of V ...
in 1684 and active until 1790.
['' 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.]
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.
Buildings
References
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