RUE NOTRE-DAME DE BONNE NOUVELLE NAME PLATE Stone, rectangul - Lot 713

RUE NOTRE-DAME DE BONNE NOUVELLE NAME PLATE Stone, rectangular form, engraved, in capital letters, with the inscription "Rue Notre Dame de Bonne Nouvelle" and the number "9", for 9th district. Model 1729. Louis XV period. Height. 65 cm; Width. 60 cm; Depth. 60 cm. PROVENANCE. Rue Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle, present-day 2nd arrondissement, Paris. A Conseil d'État decree of February 14, 1702 and a declaration by the King of December 12, 1702 divided Paris and its suburbs into twenty new districts, with boundaries and limits. By order of July 30, 1729, the Lieutenant General of Police, René Hérault, ordered that the owners of houses located at the ends of the streets affix "one-and-a-half-inch-thick stone tables of sufficient size to be able to engrave the names (of the streets) and numbers (of the districts)". At their own expense. They took the form of the one shown here. They replaced the black and ochre-colored tin plates imposed a year earlier, which were quickly damaged by some residents unhappy with the names chosen for their streets.