Named after the rue Corvisart, which honours Jean-Nicolas Corvisart (1755–1821).
He was Napoleon's personal physician, given the title First Physician to the Emperor, and a specialist of the heart and lungs. The street has borne his name since 1867. Before that it was mostly the rue du Champ-de-l'Alouette, after a field that Eustache Lalouette divided into plots in 1547; the name was later taken to mean the bird, the lark.