Blazon of the street de la Banque
Beschrijving
Blazon, 12, rue de la Banque. This street, possessed the former south-north branch of the passage of Youngs-fathers, opened in 1779, through the hotel Broth. This branch is extended in 1844 up to the place de la Bourse. At first named rue Percée, it takes its current name, because beginning in front of the hotel of Toulouse, the siege of the Bank of France.
In N 5 of the street is a commemorative tablet of the place of death of Louis Antoine de Bougainville.
In N 8 of the street is the City hall of the 2nd district of Paris. On November 16th, 1943, the Gestapo arrested, on denunciation, Jacques Bidaut, General Secretary of the city hall there. This one supplied false papers, ration coupons, virgin official documents to diverse groups of Resistance fighters. He dies to the camp of Neuengamme, on December 4th, 1944.
Just opposite, of N ° 9 - 13, the old Hotel of the Stamp and the Recording, imposing building which we owe to the architect Victor Baltard, who sheltered until 1974 the last big industrial activity of the district.
