Rue de Richelieu

The street is named for the Cardinal de Richelieu, chief minister of King Louis XIII from 1624 to 1642.

The street was originally called the Rue Royale and then Rue de Richelieu soon after.^{[citation needed]} The name was changed to the Rue de la Loi in 1793 during the French Revolution; its name was restored to Richelieu in 1806.^[1]

• Palais-Royal, a Richelieu residence (Monument historique)
• Bibliothèque nationale de France, Site Richelieu, a historical building (Monument historique)
• Comédie-Française, main hall (Salle Richelieu)
• The old Fauré Le Page store located 8, Rue de Richelieu at the corner of the Rue de Richelieu and the Rue de Montpensier. The famous firearms played an active role to the French Revolution by distributing arms to the people in 1789 and in 1830.
• The former Royal Palace Hotel, which opened in 1909 was located in the same building as the Fauré Le Page store.
• The birth of the croissant itself—that is, its adaptation from the plainer form of kipferl, before the invention of viennoiseries—can be dated to at least 1839 (some say 1838) when an Austrian artillery officer, August Zang, founded a Viennese bakery ("Boulangerie Viennoise") at 92, Rue de Richelieu.^[2] This bakery, which served Viennese specialties including the kipferl and the Vienna loaf, quickly became popular and inspired French imitators (and the concept, if not the term, of viennoiserie, a 20th-century term for supposedly Vienna-style pastries). The French version of the kipferl was named for its crescent (croissant) shape and has become an identifiable shape across the world.^{[citation needed]}

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  Rue de Richelieu at the Place Mireille
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  Salle Labrouste, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Site Richelieu
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  The old Fauré Le Page store is located at 8, Rue de Richelieu
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  The Royal Palace Hotel, inaugurated in 1909
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  Comédie-Française