Notre-Dame-de-Lorette
Notre Dame de Lorette (), also known as Ablain St.-Nazaire French Military Cemetery, is the world's largest French military cemetery.Boulevard des Italiens and the Rue de Provence. Its original name was ''Rue d'Artois'', in honour of the Comte d'Artois, brother of the king Louis XVI, later king of France with the name of Charles X. But in 1792, during the French Revolution, the prince had emigrated outside France and the street was renamed ''Rue Cerutti''.
Giuseppe Cerutti Giuseppe Antonio Giachimo Cerutti (13 June 1738 – 3 February 1792) was a French-Italian author and politician.
Life
Cerutti was born in Turin. Having joined the Society of Jesus, he became professor at the Jesuit college at Lyon. In 1762, in ...
was an Italian writer living in a mansion in the street at the junction with the ''Boulevard des Italiens''. He was a former
French National Assembly
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. He wrote the eulogy of Mirabeau. He died the same year (1791) and the street was renamed in his honour.
Louis Napoleon, the future Napoleon III, was born at number 15 on 20 April 1808.
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, the street's name was changed back to ''Rue d'Artois''. In 1826, the street was lengthened to the street of
Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette
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, in the field of Hôtel Thellusson, which was destroyed.
The French financier and politician Jacques Laffitte (1767–1844) had his mansion at number 27. On 30 July 1830, with
Adolphe Thiers
Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers ( , ; 15 April 17973 September 1877) was a French statesman and historian. He was the second elected President of France and first President of the French Third Republic.
Thiers was a key figure in the July Rev ...
and La Fayette, he took part in the Revolution of 1830: they offered the crown to the future king Louis-Philippe of France, because King Charles X had allowed soldiers to shoot civilians and because they feared that a republic would lead to disorder and foreign wars. In December 1830, Laffitte was President of the French Council of Ministers and the street was renamed after him. Laffitte shares with
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...
the honour of having lived in a street bearing his name. Dowager queen Kishwar Sultana of erstwhile princely state of Oudh, in Northern India, stayed at Hotel Papy in 1858 on this street after she returned from London, when Queen Victoria refused her plea to restore her son Wajid Ali Shah to the throne of Oudh. Oudh had been annexed earlier by British East India Company. In fact she died at the hotel and is buried at Pere LaChaise cemetery in Paris.{{Cite web, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i_lUAAAAcAAJ&q=Kachwar&pg=PA191, title = Musée des familles: Lectures du soir
At the beginning of the street at the junction with the ''Boulevard des Italiens'' or the Boulevard Haussmann, there is an interesting view of the Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre, which seems to be on top of the church of ''Notre-Dame de Lorette''. In fact, it is much more distant.
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References
* ''Histoire de Paris rue par rue, maison par maison'', Charles Lefeuve, 1875 (http://www.paris-pittoresque.com/rues/265.htm)
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