Rue de Richelieu


Rue de Richelieu is a long street of Paris, starting in the south of the 1st arrondissement, ending in the 2nd arrondissement. For the first half of the nineteenth century, before Georges-Eugène Haussmann redefined Paris with grand boulevards, it was one of the most fashionable streets of Paris:
It is most notable for scattered coin dealers and currency changers, being near the Paris Bourse, the stock market.

Name

It is named for the Cardinal de Richelieu, chief minister of Louis XIII from 1624 to 1642.
The street was originally called the rue Royale and then rue de Richelieu soon after. The name was changed to the rue de la Loi during the French Revolution; its name was restored to Richelieu in 1806.

Buildings of note