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List of streets in the 1st arrondissement of Paris

This is a list of streets in the 1st arrondissement of Paris with etymological information.

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B

  • Rue Baillet - Jean Baillet, treasurer to Charles V of France
  • Rue Bailleul - Robet Bailleul, accounts clerk who lived on the street
  • Allée Baltard - Victor Baltard (1805–1874), architect
  • Rue Basse - named due to its proximity to Place Basse
  • Passage de Beaujolais - named due to its proximity to the Rue de Beaujolais
  • Rue de Beaujolais - comte de Beaujolais, a title given to sons of the Duke of Orléans
  • Rue Berger - Jean Jacque Berger (1791–1859), prefect of the Seine
  • Rue Bertin-Poirée - Bertin Poirée, a resident of the street
  • Allée Blaise-Cendrars - Blaise Cendrars (1877–1961), writer
  • Rue des Bons-Enfants - Collège des Bons-Enfants
  • Rue Boucher - Pierre-Richard Boucher, politician
  • Rue du Bouloi - a hotel once situated there
  • Impasse des Bourdonnais - named due to its proximity to the Rue des Bourdonnais
  • Rue des Bourdonnais - Adam and Guillaume Bourdon, Mathematician

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  • Avenue du Général-Lemonnier - Ḗmile Lemonnier (1893–1945), general
  • Voie Georges-Pompidou - Georges Pompidou (1911–1974), President of France
  • Impasse Gomboust - named due to its proximity to the Rue Gomboust
  • Rue Gomboust - Jacques Gomboust, engineer to the King
  • Rue de la Grande-Truanderie - named for duties which were collected nearby

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  • Rue des Halles - named for the central market at its terminus
  • Rue de Harlay - Achille Harlay de Sancy (1581–1646), intellectual and diplomat
  • Rue Henri-Robert - Henri-Robert (1863–1936), lawyer and historian
  • Rue Herold - Ferdinand Hérold (1791–1833), composer
  • Quai de l'Horloge - clock
  • Passage Hulot - Monsieur Hulot, a former resident

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  • Pont Neuf - to distinguish it from bridges built previously

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