Quartier Saint Victor
The Saint-Victor district is the 17th administrative district of Paris , located in the 5th arrondissement . It takes its name from the former Faubourg Saint-Victor, which itself took its name from the Abbey of Saint-Victor .
Boundaries
The Saint-Victor district is bordered by Rue Lacépède and Rue Cuvier to the south, the Seine to the northeast, and Rue Descartes and Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève to the west.
In the 1st century , in Lutetia , a Gallo-Roman amphitheater attracted the Lutetian public here. The site was abandoned at the end of the 3rd century but later, the Frankish king Chilperic had this amphitheater repaired in 577 AD and held spectacles there.
A document from 1284, cited by Du Boulay University, mentions a place called Les Arènes in front of Saint-Victor. The Philippe-Auguste wall crossed the site in the 14th century . The current Saint-Victor district extends on either side of this wall; on the northwest half, the former land of Alez (the southeast half corresponds to the Jardin-des-Plantes district ).
The banks of the Seine served as a timber yard and shipyard. Inside the Philippe-Auguste city walls lay the Grands Degrés district, on the northeast slope of Montagne Sainte-Geneviève , opposite the archbishop's palace, while outside the walls lay vegetable gardens, the Abbey of Saint-Victor , dwellings forming a suburb of the same name, and also, after 1612, the Pitié Hospital , which was relocated in 1911 (its old buildings being demolished at that time), and has since been situated next to the Salpêtrière Hospital . The abbey , closed in 1790, was demolished in 1810 and later replaced by the Faculty of Sciences of Paris (now the IPG ) and the wine market (now the Jussieu campus )