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Its name comes from the dove of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Originally rue du Colombier, it takes the name of Vieux-Colombier in the seventeenth century. It also street names of Puys, path or street Cassel Cassel called Colombier, rue de la Maladerie, rue du Puys Mauconseil, rue Saint-grant Sulpice, rue Saint-Sulpice and rue des Champs and Street of the Fur. Painters Antoine and Louis Le Nain lived in this street where they died in 1648 at two days intervals. The playwright Alain-René Lesage and astronomer Jean-Dominique Cassini had also lived. At 21, Jacques Copeau opens the théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in October 1913, in the old Athenaeum-Saint-Germain.