Boulevard Saint-Michel was created by Baron Haussmann the nineteenth century e parallel to the Rue Saint-Jacques, which marks the historic north-south axis. He was with the Boulevard de Sebastopol, the great new north-south from the capital, he also originally called Boulevard Sebastopol left bank before changing its name in 1864.
Anecdote:
A political candidate named Duconnaud once proposed as a campaign promise to extend the Boulevard Saint-Michel to the sea The idea was then taken up by Ferdinand Lop who would, response to a question of which end it would be extended, said no without panache: "There will be extended to the sea at both ends . "At least version that gives the serious Alphonse Allais , known as the testimonies are not always very reliable ...
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