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 [ 2 ] . 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 [ 4 ] . 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 )