Rue du Cloître-Saint-Benoît

Rue du Cloître-Saint-Benoît was a now-disappeared street in the Sorbonne district of Paris, demolished to build the present rue des Écoles. It was named after the cloister of the église Saint-Benoît-le-Bétourné and just before the French Revolution it fell within that church's parish. It was made part of the Chalier sector during the Revolution - that sector was renamed the Sorbonne district when the original 11th arrondissement of Paris was formed in 1795.

It began at rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques (now rue Du Sommerard) and ended at passage Saint-Benoît-Saint-Jacques. Its house numbers were black and the last numbers were 23 and 26.

History
In a judicial act of 1243 it was known as rue André Machel after its owner. It was later renamed rue de l'Encloître Saint-Benoist then rue du Cloître Saint-Benoît since it served église Saint-Benoît-le-Bétourné. Around 1280-1300 it was mentioned in Le Dit des rues de Paris by Guillot de Paris as en Cloistre Saint-Beneoit le bestourné.

A decree of 1855 prescribed the construction of rue des Écoles, including the demolition of rue du Cloître-Saint-Benoît. Around 1875 all that was left of the street was a junction between rue Du Sommerard and Rue des Écoles, now totally disappeared. Numbers 1, 3, 5 and 7 on place Paul-Painlevé were built on the site of the north part of the street and the main auditorium of the Sorbonne occupies part of its south side.