Rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière

The Rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière marks the boundary between the 9th and 10th arrondissements of Paris, the main thoroughfare of the old Faubourg Poissonnière district.

Origin of the name
The rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière owes its name to the fact that it crossed the hamlet located outside the porte de la Poissonnerie of the surrounding wall drawn in the alignment of the rue des Poissonniers to the north and the rue Poissonnière to the south, it formed part of the chemin des Poissonniers. The faubourg was originally a district “fors le bourg” (from the old French “fors”, derived from the Latin foris “en dehors” and from borc, “bourg”, forsborc around 1200, forbours around 1260).

History
In the 17th century, the street which appears on the old plans bore the name of “Chaussée de la Nouvelle-France” because it led to the hamlet of Nouvelle-France founded in 1642 on an old vineyard.

It ran along, in its southern part of the boulevard to the large sewer (location since its covering in 1760 of the rue des Petites-Écuries), the seam of the Filles-Dieu which extended to the east to the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis, and, to the north of the rue de Paradis, the Saint-Lazare enclosure which also extended to the east to the faubourg Saint-Laurent.

In 1660, it took the name "rue Sainte-Anne", because of a chapel that had been built there at number 77 to serve the district of New France.

From 1770, Claude-Martin Goupy speculated in the Faubourg Poissonnière on land sold by the community of Filles-Dieu, of which he was the entrepreneur, playing a key role in the urbanization of the district4.

During the Trois Glorieuses, the route was the scene of confrontation between the insurgents and the troops.

On March 8, 1918, during the World War I, a bomb thrown from a German plane exploded at no. 66 rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière.

On April 1, 1918, a shell launched by the Paris Gun exploded at no. 54 rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière.

Remarkable buildings and places of memory

 * At No. 2 is Lycée Edgar-Poe.