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The Rue du Bac is a Paris street located in the 7th arrondissement. Long of 1150 metres, she docks Voltaire and Anatole France and ends rue de Sevres. It owes its name to ferry established about 1550 on the current dock Voltaire and who served in the sixteenth century to transport blocks of stone for the construction of the Tuileries Palace, across the Seine to the current location of the Pont Royal . It was built under Louis XIV to the location of the red bridge, built in 1632 by the financier Barbier. Primitivement, the street was named general path of Bac, then alley du Bac and large Rue du Bac.