Rue du Pont-Neuf, Paris

Rue du Pont-Neuf is a street in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France, shared between Les Halles to the north and to the south. It was pierced in the second half of the 19th century.

Location and access
The street gives access to the Pont Neuf from the right bank to the south, and to the Forum des Halles from its other end to the north.

The lane continues via this last end and becomes, closed to car traffic since the closure of the old halls of Paris, then rue Montorgueil, , , rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière for lead to the.

The current street is an important crossing point because it crosses several arteries such as the tracks of the banks of the Seine, the rue de Rivoli and the rue Saint-Honoré. There was previously an entrance to the Forum des Halles car park, now filled in and converted into a sidewalk.

Origin of the name
It bears this name because it leads to the Pont Neuf.

History
On 21 June 1854, a decree approved the plan for the restructuring of the Halles Centrales. This plan provides for the opening of a new street between the Pont-Neuf and Les Halles. The plot plan of the properties to be expropriated for « the widening of Rue Tirechape and the extension of this road to the Pont Neuf » was published on 6 September 1865.

Rue Étienne, and  are absorbed by the new road. Part of the and the, located at the mouth of the Pont Neuf, also disappeared. In 1867, the new road was named « rue du Pont-Neuf ». The part between and rue Rambuteau was renamed «  » in 1877; this street was removed during the construction of the Forum des Halles.

Remarkable buildings and places of memory

 * N° 1, at the corner with the quai du Louvre: La Samaritaine department store, Monument historique logo Registered MH (1990). On the top floor, Le Kong, a restaurant fitted out in 2003 by designer Philippe Starck, whose glass roof is in line with the Pont Neuf.  A scene from the film Tell No One (2006) was filmed there.
 * N° 2, at the corner with the : former site of the  store (1867–1972).
 * N° 31, Molière would have been born in a house which was on this site; a bust above an engraved inscription pays homage to him. Nearby, 96 rue Saint-Honoré, is a commemorative plaque stating the same. We owe this inscription, indicating the birth of the man of letters in 1620, while he was born in 1622, to an unscrupulous owner who, by buying the building, thought that he could give it an capital gain by erecting this false plaque.
 * N° 33, restaurant Au chien qui fume, Monument historique (1984).