Rue du Bac, Paris

History

Buildings of note

Odd street numbers

• 1 : Built by Auguste Rolin and C. La Horgue in 1882-1883
• 8385 : Former monastery of the Immaculate Conception built in 1637. It also occupied numbers 87 and 89, onto which the garden extended.
• 97 : Hôtel de Ségur : This house was built in 1722 for Pierre Henry Lemaître, perhaps by. Some of the interior décor dates to that period. From 1786 to 1792 and from 1796 to 1798 it was occupied by Madame de Staël, who held a regular salon here.
• 101 : Hôtel de La Feuillade

  Even street numbers

• 24 : The Caisse des dépôts et consignations, the public financial institution created in 1816 to control financial affairs in the public's interest
• 40 : The door of this building opens on a perpendicular passage to the rue du Bac. Inside the passage was the Hôtel Cochin where Charles de Montalembert lived.
• 44 : In 1932, André Malraux wrote a portion of Man's Fate here.
• 46 : The outside door has panels representing Prudence and Law, sculpted by Michel Varin. The original 18th century interior had wood paneling adorned with work by the painters Carle Van Loo, Jean-Baptiste Oudry and Jean II Restout. It was dispersed at the end of the 19th century. Some of its elements have been redisplayed at the musée Jacquemart-André, the Hôtel de Pontalba and the castle of Vaux-le-Pénil.
• 70 : Building from the years 18301840
• 102 : Hôtel de Sainte-Aldegonde, built in the first half of the 18th century
• 110 : Across courtyard, studio and house constructed in 1812 for himself by Pierre-Louis Baltard, father of the architect Victor Baltard. The ground floor of the house was occupied by James McNeill Whistler from 1892 to 1901.
• 118120 : Two hotels, separated by a party wall, built between 1713 and 1715 by Claude Nicolas Lepas-Dubuisson for the Missions étrangères de Paris. The hotel at 120 is known as the Hôtel de Clermont-Tonnerre, the name of the landlord who held the property at the end of the 18th century, and where François-René de Chateaubriand lived in 1838 and died in 1848. The doors representing the four corners of the world are probably the work of Jean-Baptiste Tureau.
• 128 : Missions étrangères de Paris, an evangelical Catholic organization : The chapel was built between 1683 and 1689 by master mason Lepas-Dubuisson.
• 136140 : Older buildings constituting the convent Maison des Filles de la Charité de Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, including the Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, the burial place of St. Catherine Labouré. This is the address where the character Mr Klein lived in the 1976 film Mr Klein.

  Destroyed buildings

• 84 : Former entrance into the garden of the Hôtel de Galliffet, which has its main entrance at 73 ; marked by a massive porch that was torn down in 1837
• 86 : Site of the former Hôtel Dillon