About This Image

Title and number in pencil in Atget\'s hand on verso.

See: Lemagny, Aubenas, Borhan and Lebard, Atget: Le Pionnier, p.69.

Significantly, this photograph's location is also the birthplace of Auguste Rodin, born here on November 12, 1840.

Tracing its origins to the 14th century, rue de l'Arbalète was initially known as rue de la Porte-de-l'Arbalète. Renamed to rue de l'Arbalète in 1844, it reached its current form in 1924 with the opening of its final section, connecting rue Mouffetard and rue des Patriarches.

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