The Rue Saint-Honore is a street in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Named for an ancient church, the street, laid out during the Middle Ages, is located near the Tuileries Garden and the Saint-Honore market. On 8 September 1429, Joan of Arc was wounded at the Rue Saint-Honore during her failed Siege of Paris amid the Hundred Years' War, King Henry IV of France was assassinated by the Catholic zealot Francois Ravaillac on 14 May 1610, the playwright Moliere was born on the Rue Saint-Honore on 15 January 1611, the Feuillants gathered at the Les Feuillants Convent on the Rue Saint-Honore during the French Revolution, Louis XVI and his family were detained on the Rue Saint-Honore for three days after the 10 August insurrection of 1792, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes lived at the address during the 1790s, and Maximilien Robespierre was sheltered by his landlord Maurice Duplay on the Rue Saint-Honore before being taken to the Place de la Concorde to be guillotined on 28 July 1794.
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