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Rue Saint-Florentin is a thoroughfare in the 1st and 8th arrondissement of Paris. The street took its name from the Duc de la Vrillière, Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Saint-Florentin, minister and secretary of state, who had his private mansion built there.

History
Rue Saint-Florentin was originally a cul-de-sac named "cul-de-sac de l'Orangerie". In 1730, part of the land bordering it (corresponding to the odd numbers) belonged to Louis XV and the other part (corresponding to the even numbers) to financier Samuel Bernard.

In 1758, when the Place de la Concorde was created, the impasse became "rue de l'Orangerie". It was also known as "petite rue des Tuileries".

Location and access
It begins between 2, place de la Concorde and 258, rue de Rivoli. It ends at 271, rue Saint-Honoré, where it is extended by rue du Chevalier-de-Saint-George. The even-numbered side is in the 1st arrondissement, while the odd-numbered side is in the 8th arrondissement.

It is bordered by the Hôtel Saint-Florentin (also known as the "Hôtel de Talleyrand-Périgord"), which until 2007 housed the U.S. Consulate (first replaced by other departments of the U.S. Embassy in France, then leased to various companies, including the American law firm Jones Day), and the Hôtel de la Marine, which housed the Ministry of the Navy from 1789 and is now the headquarters of the French Navy.

Remarkable buildings and memorials

 * No. 2: Hôtel Saint-Florentin or Hôtel de Talleyrand. It was built for Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Saint-Florentin, by architect Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin, to plans by architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel. It was successively named Hôtel de La Vrillière, Hôtel de l'Infantado and Hôtel Talleyrand. Inhabited by Jacques-Charles de Fitz-James, Maria Anna zu Salm-Salm (1740-1816), widow of the 12th Duke of the Infantado. The Venetian Embassy in France rented the premises from 1790 to 1794. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Dorothée de Courlande, Marie-Antoine Carême, James Mayer de Rothschild and the US Embassy in France.
 * No. 4: building inhabited by man of letters and theater director Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi (1865-1943).
 * No 5: Charlotte and Augustin Robespierre, for a brief period in autumn 1792, their brother, Maximilien de Robespierre until he fell ill.
 * Nos. 6-8: buildings constructed for personal use by Jacques-Guillaume Legrand and Jacques Molinos in 1789. On the façade, capitals bear the associated figures, "LM", of the two architects and casts of the Innocents fountain at no. 6, whose dismantling Legrand and Molinos had supervised. In the building, they founded the Musée de l'Ordre Dorique, which featured a scale reproduction of two Parthenon columns in one of the two courtyards.
 * No. 7: Hôtel Le Maître, built by Louis Le Tellier in 1768. Adélaïde de Souza (1761-1836), a woman of letters and mother of Charles, comte de Flahaut, lived in this hotel from 1829. The hotel was also home to Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894). In 1914, couturier Jean Patou opened his haute couture house here and, in 1921, commissioned decorator architect Louis Süe to make alterations. Today, it houses the offices of the French Human Rights Ombudsman.
 * No. 9: Hôtel de Ségur, built by Louis Le Tellier in 1768. Philippe Paul, comte de Ségur (1780-1873) lived here at the beginning of the First Empire. Under the July Monarchy, the hotel was occupied by General Baudrand (1774-1848), peer de France. Prince Józef Michał Poniatowski, an opera singer lived here during the Second Empire. Misia Sert and Thadée Natanson lived at this address after their marriage in 1893, until their divorce in 1905. In 1910, it belonged to the Marquis de Las Cases.
 * No. 11: Hôtel de Chiverny, built in 1702. Rebuilt in 1767 for Jean-Baptiste Bersin. It belonged to his daughter Claude Angélique Bersin, married in 1747 to Marquis Anne Emmanuel de Crussol d'Ambroise. The Charles, marquis de La Valette (1806-1881), Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Second Empire, lived and died here.
 * No. 13: inhabited in 1910 by Gaston Jollivet (1842-1927), man of letters, and Victor de Cottens (1862-1956), playwright.