Rue du Bac, Paris 3.57

Rue du Bac is a street in Paris situated in the 7th arrondissement. The street, which is 1150 m long, begins at the junction of the quais Voltaire and Anatole-France and ends at the rue de Sèvres. The street used to be in the fashionable Faubourg Saint-Germain.Rue du Bac is also the name of 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.HistoryRue du Bac owes its name to a ferry established toward 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, bridge constructed under the reign of Louis XIV to replace the pont rouge built in 1632 by the financier Barbier.Originally, the street was named grand chemin du Bac, then ruelle du Bac and grande rue du Bac.Buildings of noteOdd numbers n° 1 : Building by Auguste Rolin and C. La Horgue in 1882-1883. n°s 83-85 : Former monastery of the Immaculate Conception built in 1637. It also occupied numbers 87 and 89 rue de Grenelle onto which the garden extended. n° 97 : Hôtel de Ségur (also called de Salm-Dyck) : This house was built in 1722 for Pierre Henry Lemaître (also owner of the château du Marais), perhaps for François Debias-Aubry. Some of the interior décor dates to this period. From 1786 to 1792 and from 1796 to 1798 it was occupied by Madame de Staël, who held a regular salon here. n° 101 : Hôtel de La Feuillade.