BACK TO MENU Street du Dragon Elle s'appelait jadis rue du Sépulcre du nom des chanoines du Saint-Sépulcre qui y avaient une propriété au début du XVe siècle. Les riverains demandèrent en 1808 que leur rue change de nom ce qui leur fut accordé. Elle devint la rue du Dragon, du nom d'une sculpture en pierre représentant un dragon sculpté par Paul-Ambroise Slodtz au-dessus de la porte de l'Hôtel de Crozat, construit par l'architecte Pierre de Vigny (1690-1772) pour le financier Antoine Crozat (1655-1738) dans la cour du Dragon, qui communiquait avec cette rue. L'Hôtel fut démoli en 1935 et l'original de la sculpture déposé au musée du Louvre. Toutefois, une copie de cette sculpture figure aujourd'hui au dessus de la porte du numéro 50 de la rue de Rennes où se trouvait autrefois une entrée de la cour. It was formerly called St. Sepulchre name of the canons of the Holy Sepulchre that had a property in the early fifteenth century. Local residents demanded in 1808 that their street name changes which was granted them. She became the rue du Dragon, the name of a stone sculpture representing a sculpted by Paul-Ambrose Slodtz dragon above the door of the Hotel de Crozat, built by architect Pierre de Vigny (1690-1772) for the financial Antoine Crozat (1655-1738) in the court of the Dragon, which communicated with the street. The hotel was demolished in 1935 and the original sculpture deposited in the Louvre. However, a copy of this sculpture is today above the door of number 50 in the Rue de Rennes, where there was once a courtyard entrance.   Number 7 Masks with heads carved Jellyfish Number 10 Here lived the writer Roger Martin du Gard (1881-1958) Nobel Prize for Literature (1937) Author of Thibault. Number 18 Camille St. Croix. Poet, playwright, novelist, art critic. Born in Paris on October 5 1859 Died in this house Sept. 29, 1915. Number 30 Victor Hugo lived in this house in 1821. February 26, 1907 The Hugophiles. Number 36 Jean Giono Writer (1895-1970) regularly attended here during his stay in Paris from 1929 to 1937 Her window was the second right on the first floor. "What about the sneaky already distant evening of my first arrival made ​​me mysteriously choose this street, the hotel name and devouring ignited?". Jean Giono, The Real Resources.         Map to locate precisely the streets Other Streets to discover