Rue de la Huchette

Rue de la Huchette
Rue de la Huchette is located in Paris
Rue de la Huchette
Shown within Paris
Length164 m (179 yd; 538 ft 1 in)
Width10 m (32 ft 10 in)
Arrondissement5th
QuarterSorbonne
Coordinates48°51′11″N 2°20′43″E / 48.85306°N 2.34528°E / 48.85306; 2.34528
Fromrue du Petit Pont and 6 place du Petit Pont
Toplace Saint-Michel
Construction
Completionc. 1200 (1200)
Denominationc. 1284 (1284)

The rue de la Huchette is one of the oldest streets running along the Rive Gauche in Paris, France. Running eastward just below the Seine river from the Place Saint-Michel, it is today an animated Latin Quarter artery with one of the highest concentrations of restaurants in the city, Greek specialties predominating. It is situated between Boulevard Saint-Michel and Rue du Petit-Pont and faces the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. This almost exclusively pedestrian street is very popular with tourists. Disdained by some guidebooks as "Bacteria Alley", the street nevertheless has an intense night life with no fewer than four pubs and several bars.

The street is celebrated by the American writer Elliot Paul, who lived there in the 1920s and 30s, in The Last Time I Saw Paris (1942).


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