Verlomme

The Rue Roger-Verlomme is a small street in the eastern part of the Marais in Paris's 3rd arrondissement. It runs from the Rue de Béarn to the Rue des Tournelles and can be reached via the Chemin Vert metro station. It is named after Roger Verlomme, a former prefect of the Seine. Historically, the site was long part of the Rue du Foin and later bore the name Impasse des Hospitalières, after a convent of the Hospitalières de la Charité Notre-Dame. This building, approved by Louis XIII, served among others as a retreat for Madame de Maintenon before she rose to prominence at the court of Louis XIV. After the convent was closed in 1792, the grounds were converted into a cotton mill and later into the Hôpital Andral. When the hospital was demolished in 1907, an extension of the Rue Étienne-Marcel was built in its place, though it was never completed. Today, only an unusual widening of the street and a commemorative plaque bear witness to this abandoned project. A notable building at number 5 houses the French province of the White Fathers, a well-known missionary society.