High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, in the IXe arrondissement of Paris was the street that gave this new quarter of Paris its generic name. It runs north-northwest from the Boulevard des Italiens to the Église de la Sainte-Trinité sited to provide a focal object at its upper end. It has one section of the Galeries Lafayette department store. Here existed a swampy piece of ground north of the ancient porte Gaillon, one of the city gates built in the wall under Louis XIII. In the seventeenth century it was still a winding road, the chemin des Porcherons connecting the porte Gaillon to the humble village of Les Porcherons, with a straggling string of raffish premises and an unrailed bridge across the fouled brook of Ménilmontant. The notorious hostelry "La Grande Pinte" stood on the present site of the Église de la Sainte-Trinité. It was graded and resurveyed as a boulevard eight toises in width according to an ordonnance of 4 December 1720, and stretched from the end of rue Louis-le-Grand to rue Saint-Lazare.