The Rue Soufflot is a street in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. It links the Jardin du Luxembourg at the Place Edmond-Rostand on the Boulevard Saint-Michel with the Panthéon at the Place du Panthéon.The street follows the ancient Roman decumanus. From the 13th century, the medieval municipal government was based in the "Parloir aux bourgeois", on the site of what is now 20 Rue Soufflot.
The street is named after Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780), architect of the Panthéon de Paris. It was built to give a perspective towards the Panthéon. It was completed as far as the Rue Saint-Jacques around 1760 and known as the Rue du Panthéon-Français during the French Revolution. In 1805 a plan was made to extend it as far as what is now the Boulevard Saint-Michel, but it took until the second half of the 19th century for this plan to be carried out. It was renamed the Rue Soufflot in 1807