Impasse des Bourdonnais is a street in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.
History
Like the rue des Bourdonnais, the street owes its name to Adam and Guillaume Bourdon, civic administrators in the 12th century.
In the Middle Ages, the street served as a deposit for refuse, corpses and other filth from the surrounding area. There was a pig market there until around 1360. The place had a sinister reputation at the time. Two witches were burned alive there in 1319; the place also saw the execution by boiling of counterfeiters.
The school located at the street's intersection with the rue des Bourdonnais was built around 1830, on the site of a house that had belonged to the philologist and historian Henri de Valois.
The street was photographed by Charles Marville during his documentation of Haussman's renovation of Paris.
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