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According to online resources, the Rue de Provence is mainly in the IX e arrondissement of Paris. Only the short part of the street between rue du Havre and rue de Rome is in the VIII arrondissement.
At this place was a little river called "ruisseau de Menilmontant". With the Parisian population increasing, this little river became the Grand Egout with two meters width in the XVIIth century. Letter patent of 15 December 1770 allowed the banker Jean-Joseph de Laborde to create a 30 feet width street by covering the "Grand Egout".
"Provence" is the name of a region in the south-east of France, but the name of the street is in honour of Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, comte de Provence, king of France from 1814 to 1824 under the name of Louis XVIII.
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