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The rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris was the street that gave this new quarter of Paris its generic name. It runs north-northwest from the Boulevard des Italiens to the Église de la Sainte-Trinité sited to provide a focal object at its upper end. It has one section of the Galeries Lafayette department store. Here existed a swampy piece of ground north of the ancient ''porte Gaillon'', one of the city gates built in the wall under Louis XIII. In the 17th century it was still a winding road, the ''chemin des Porcherons'', connecting the porte Gaillon to the humble village of Les Porcherons, with a straggling string of raffish premises and a bridge without a handrail across the fouled brook of Ménilmontant. The notorious hostelry "La Grande Pinte" stood on the present site of the Église de la Sainte-Trinité. It was graded and resurveyed as a boulevard eight ''toises'' in width according to an ordinance of 4 December 1720, and stretched from the end of rue Louis-le-Grand to rue Saint-Lazare. It received its popular and eventually official name from Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin, Duke of Antin (1665–1736), the son of the marquise de Montespan and superintendent of the Bâtiments du Roi, whose hôtel〔Later the hôtel de Richelieu, Paris seat of the duc de Richelieu.〕 directly faced the opening of the new street; his name became attached to the roadway as early as 1712. ==Notable places== At the junction with the Boulevard des Capucines, site of the former Hotel de Montmorency, then ''Théâtre du Vaudeville'' 1869, and Paramount Opéra movies 1927. The main hall was the 'grand salon' of the Hotel in the 18th century. The rotunda on the facade has been kept. At the junction with the Boulevard des Italiens was the Dépôt des Gardes-françaises (=French guards barracks) built by the colonel Duke of Biron in 1764. It gave the name of the boulevard for some years. On 12 July 1789, a platoon of the guards saved his colonel, M. Duchâtelet, from popular riots. 〔(Le boulevard des Italiens on the web site paris-pittoresque.com )〕 The higher ground and healthier air, it was thought, to the north and west of the heart of Paris attracted the upper classes in the 18th century. A series of glamorous hôtels particuliers were erected along the Chaussée-d'Antin in the later 18th century (now destroyed) : * Around n°5 the hôtel of the Duc d'Orléans, who lived next to his wife Madame de Montesson. She had a private chapel and a theater. His secretary baron Grimm and Madame d'Epinay lived in one of the apartments. Grimm hosted Mozart and his mother in 1778. This was also where the street's most famous resident, Frédéric Chopin, lived from 1833 to 1836. Frequent visitors included Franz Liszt. * At n°9, hôtel of mademoiselle Guimard, who made her reputation as a dancer at the opéra at 600 livres annually, and her fortune as the mistress of the prince de Soubise, was housed in an advanced Neoclassical style, erected for her by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux in 1770-73. It gained the nickname of "Terpsichore crowned by Apollon temple", by reference to Mlle Guimard (Terpsichore was the Muse of dance). There was a theater with 500 seats. When she grew older, Mlle Guimard held a lottery with her hôtel as the prize: she sold 2.500 tickets of 120 pounds. * At n°20, hôtel of general Moreau where the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire was planned In 1977, 400 pieces of sculpture, from the facade of the cathedral Notre Dame de Paris, were found underground. Especially heads of the kings of Juda. During the French revolution, the statues were destroyed because people thought that they were statues of kings of France. * Frédéric Chopin lived at no. 38 from 1836 to 1838, after moving from no. 5 Rue de la Chausee-d'Antin. * At n°46, hôtel of Mirabeau, where he died on 2 April 1791 after a plentiful dinner. It gaves the ''Chaussée'' the Revolutionary name of ''rue de Mirabeau'' from 1791 until, with Mirabeau proscribed in 1793, it was renamed rue du Mont-Blanc in celebration of a commune that had been added to French territory. It regained its former name in 1815. * At n°70, hôtel of Cardinal Fesch, the archbishop of Lyon and uncle of Napoleon. In the course of the 19th century commercial establishments changed the character of the street, and shops opened in the ground floors of the old residences. For Honoré de Balzac "The heart of Paris today beats between rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin and rue du Faubourg Montmartre." In 1840 the street was extended past rue Neuve-Saint-Augustin. The first one-way streets in Paris were the Rue de Mogador and the Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, created on 13 December 1909. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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