A Walk Down Rue du Pot-de-Fer, Paris

Описание: The Rue du Pot-de-Fer, located in the Val-de-Grâce district, starts at 58 Rue Mouffetard and ends at 33 Lhomond Street

It is served by the line M 7 at the nearest Place Monge station, as well as by the RATP 47 bus line.

It is named after an old business there.

This ancient road of Paris which existed in 1550 in the state of lane was named "Alley of the Priests" in 1554.

In 1558, it was named "Rue du Pot-de-Fer" — in a title — from 1588, then in 1579 "The Priest's Road" and "Priest's Road" and in 1603 "Street of the Good Well known as the Pot-de-Fer" and more simply "Street of the Good Well" because of a well lying at its corner with Mouffetard Street, which later became a public fountain

It was also called "Rue du Pot-de-Fer-Saint-Marcel" in order to distinguish it from the Rue du Pot-de-Fer-Saint-Sulpice.

Forming at the corner with Tournefort Street is the former barracks of the French Guards whose façade dating from 1775 has been listed as a historical monument since 19733.

The 17th-century Pot-de-Fer fountain is located on the corner of Mouffetard Street; it has also been listed as a historical monument since 1925.

In its adjoining part of Rue Mouffetard, it now enjoys its tourist and festive activity, with many small restaurants.

The British writer George Orwell was living there in the late 1920s, in a shabby hotel at 6 Rue du Pot-de-Fer, where he lived the experiences recounted in Down and Out in Paris and London.