The Rue de Provence is a street in the 8th and 9th arrondissements of Paris.

With the Parisian population increasing, this little river became the two-metre wide "Grand Egout" (great sewer) in the 17th century.

Letters patent on December 15, 1770 allowed the banker Jean-Joseph de Laborde to create the Rue de Provence; which would cover the "Grand Egout".

The width of the road was set at 30 feet, confirmed by two ministry decisions on March 20, 1813 and May 21, 1823.

While "Provence" is the name of a region in the south-east of France, the street is actually named in honor of Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, comte de Provence, king of France from 1814 to 1824 under the name of Louis XVIII.