DRAWINGS OF BORDEAUX'S ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE

  
 

 

  
  Rue des Argentiers  

Up to the fifteenth century this street was called "rua deus Dauradeys" or "rua dos Auradeys". The houses situated on the eastern side backed onto an ancient city wall. Its name derives from the silversmiths who lived there. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the title of Orfèvre (goldsmith, silversmith) was widely employed in Bordeaux, being later substituted by that of Argentier (silversmith).  
 
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  Place du Parlement, collection of 4 drawings  
 
1) Place du Parlement DETAIL "West Facade"
  

This square was built towards the middle of the eighteenth century. It is named as "Marché Roial" on the plan by Lattré dated 1755.
  
 
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2) Place du Parlement DETAIL "North Facade"  

This was renamed "Marché de la Liberté" during the French Revolution, then later "Marché Royal" under Louis-Philippe.  
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3) Place du Parlement DETAIL "East Facade"  

Towards 1880 the name of "Place du Parlement" was definitively adopted.  
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4) Place du Parlement DETAIL "South Facade"  

 

 The fountain at the center of the square was built in 1886.  
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-- HOUSES FROM THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES
 
TIMBER FRAMED HOUSES
There are relatively few of these houses in Bordeaux, there are officially four:
at 2 rue Pilet, 31 rue du Loup Arnaud Miqueu, 5 rue Porte Basse and rue Mauriac.
Are there perhaps other houses of this type hidden underneath a coat of roughcast or behind walls? It is highly possible.		  
 
STONE HOUSES
Two types of possible construction:

1) the facades in cut stone, of possible origin from: Bouchot/Grezillac/ST-Emilion/Taillebourg (i.e. local origin)
2) the facades in quarry stone (rubble) covered by a coat of roughcast.

There exists in Bordeaux about a dozen houses dating from this period: impasse rue neuve, 49 rue de Bahutiers, 16 rue St-James, 31 rue de la Fusterie, 49 rue des Faures, 1 rue Mauriac, Square Jean Bureau, 12 rue de la Cour des Aides and 12 rue de Mérignac.
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  Rue Pilet  
  Rue Pilet, formerly rue Penteneyre, goes from the present day Cours Victor Hugo to the cimetière des Frères Mineurs or Minîmes.
At the beginning of the eighteenth century the abode of M. de Fortaly (close to the convent "Ursulines") was used by the "Académie de la Sauvetat" to perform concerts called "Le Concert Galant" by the Maréchal Montrevel the then Governor of Guyenne.		  
 
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Corner rue du Loup / Rue Arnaud Miqueu  

Rue du Loup
 The origin of this name remains uncertain. Elie Vinet has indicated the presence of a sepulchral stone consecrated to a Biturige Vivisque, called Lupus, in this manner certain believe they have found the correct origin of the name!
Others such as Gabriel de Lurbe report that the origin of this name dates from 582 and is the result of an attack by a pack of particularly ferocious wolves!

Rue Arnaud Miqueu
Up to the fifteenth century this street was called rue Alègre. It carries the name of a "Jurat" Arnaud MIQUEU who during a city meeting held on 14 June 1421 was given the duty of leading the troops accompanied by its inhabitants and the English to lay siege to the château de Budos.

  
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Rue des Bahutiers  

This street began to carry this name from the eighteenth century, when the makers of trunks and chests called "bahuts" established themselves there.
Before this the street was called rue d'Enfern ou d'Enfer, rue "Deu Putz-deus-Judius" (Little Judas Street). 		 
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Source : Louis DESGRAVES "Evocation du Vieux Bordeaux"
  
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