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LaRue is a French topographic name for someone who lived beside a road, track, or pathway, Old French rue (Latin ruga ‘crease’, ‘fold’), with the definite article la. [1] It literally means "the street" in French. [2] It is a surname and sometime a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Ruta graveolens, commonly known as rue, common rue or herb-of-grace, is a species of the genus Ruta grown as an ornamental plant and herb. It is native to the Balkan Peninsula . It is grown throughout the world in gardens , especially for its bluish leaves, and sometimes for its tolerance of hot and dry soil conditions.
Corner of rue de Turenne in the 3 th district of Paris: the plaque mentions the current street name, while its former name - Street Boucherat - is still visible, carved in stone of the building. It is possible to distinguish several eras where we observe a similar typology of street names on French territory:
In France, Rue de l'Église is the most used street name before Place de l'Église (Church Place) and Grande Rue. La Poste lists nearly 8,000: 20% of French communes have a route named in this way. Streets with the name in France include: Rue de l'Église, Colmar Rue de l'Église, Épinay-sur-Seine Rue de l'Église, Montreuil
Ruta or the rue genus—whose species' common names oft include "rue" Rutaceae or the rue family; Asplenium ruta-muraria or wall rue, a fern; Galega officinalis or goat's-rue, an edible legume; Peganum harmala, Syrian, African or wild rue; Tephrosia virginiana, also "goat's rue", a subshrub native to North America
The original name was the Rue des Étuves (transl. Street of the Ovens – transl. Street of the Baths) or Ruelle des Étuves, and at various times it has also been known as the Rue du Renard (not to be confused with the current Rue du Renard, in the 4th arrondissement) and the Rue des Bouticles (transl. Street of the Shops).
The Rue de Belleville is an old street, dating as far back as 1670. In the mid-19th century, it had a different name for each of two segments: the Rue de Paris and the Rue du Parc. This contiguous right-of-way was renamed the Rue de Belleville in 1868. [1]
Ruta (commonly known as rue) is a genus of strongly scented evergreen subshrubs, 20–60 cm tall, in the family Rutaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, Macaronesia and southwest Asia. About ten species are accepted in the genus.