Rue Soufflot

The Rue Soufflot (French pronunciation: [ʁy suflo]; "Soufflot Street") is a street in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France, at the border between the Quartier de la Sorbonne and the Quartier du Val-de-Grâce.

[1] From the 13th century, the medieval municipal government was based in the "Parloir aux bourgeois", on the site of what is now 20 Rue Soufflot.

In the 19th century the street was regularly visited by a celebrity of the Latin Quarter: the "femme au perroquet" or parrot woman, carrying a macaw and handing out toys and sweets to children.

[3] The street is also mentioned in several 20th-century chansons such as Quartier latin by Léo Ferré (1967) and Place des grands hommes by Patrick Bruel (1989); in the latter, Bruel sings about walking down the Rue Soufflot towards the Place du Panthéon, the song's namesake, to meet old school friends.

On 21 May 1981, the day of his inauguration as President of France, François Mitterrand took the Rue Soufflot from the Place Edmond-Rostand to arrive to the Panthéon, where he laid roses on the tombs of Jean Moulin, Victor Schœlcher and Jean Jaurès.