Réaumur The street, named after the great scholar french René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, is located in the 2nd District and 3rd arrondissement of Paris. This is a great Haussmannian artery, which extends to the east-west square of the Temple of the Bourse, parallel to the Grands Boulevards and taking part in plots of the oldest streets. It keeps entire sides of old streets absorbed during the digging: Phélipeaux street in the neighborhood of Temple (3rd district), and street Thévenot, which still sees the name engraved on the corner of the rue des Petits-Tile ( 2nd district). The first section of the street was Réaumur breakthrough of 1854 to 1858, between Rue du Temple and rue Saint-Denis. The section located between rue Saint-Denis and Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, projected from 1864, was finally breakthrough thirty years later under the Third Republic and inaugurated by President Félix Faure in February 1897. The buildings of this section have mostly an industrial or commercial, with monumental facades, and very often, metal structures visible or dressed stone. To the east, beyond the Rue du Temple, the street is extended by Réaumur the streets of Brittany.