Street names

Since the 18th century, the plates indicating the Paris street names have looked more or less in the same way. You can find some which are older than the other ones and in the beginning the arondissment number was not indicated. These examples are from "my" street.

Street numbers generally start with the lowest numbers close to the Seine.




Previosuly, you could see the street names engraved in the stone. Sometimes the street names have remained unchanged since centuries, sometimes they have changed, because of different "revolutions" (royal or religious names) or to enable to give the name to some famous person, or to regroup certain types of street names to a specific area.

Here is an example where Rue d'Orléans was renamed rue Légendre and Rue Saint Louis was renamed Rue Nollet.