Avenue Foch
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| Avenue Foch, viewed from the terrace of the Arc de Triomphe | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Paris |
| District | 16th arrondissement |
| Created | 1854 |
| Hist. Names | Avenue de l'Impératrice, Avenue du Bois de Boulogne |
| Connecting roads | Boulevard Lannes (west end) |
| Cross streets | Rue de Presbourg (at the beginning), Rue Rude (behind number 12), Rue Chalgrin (20), Rue Le Sueur (32), Rue Piccini (44), Rue Duret (48), Avenue de Malakoff (50), Rue Laurent-Pichat (52), Rue Pergolèse (66), Square de l'Avenue Foch (80, all on the north side), Rue de Traktir (9), Rue Paul Valéry (27 bis), Rue Leroux (33), Avenue Raymond Poincaré (37), Rue de la Pompe (41), Rue Picot (49), Rue Crevaux (61), Rue Spontini (73), Avenue Bugeaud (77), Boulevard Flandrin (83, all on the south side) |
| Places | Place Charles-de-Gaulle (eastern beginning), Place du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny (western end) |
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| Street length | 1,300 m |
The Avenue Foch is located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris and runs from the Place Charles de Gaulle with the Arc de Triomphe to the Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne . The approximately 1300 meter long avenue is the widest street in Europe with a width of approximately 120 meters . It is considered the most exclusive residential street in the city.
history
The avenue was built under the reign of Emperor Napoléon III. laid out in 1854. Originally it was called avenue de l'Impératrice , after the abdication of the emperor avenue du Bois de Boulogne or avenue du Bois for short . In June 1853, the Paris-designed Cologne architect Jacques Ignace Hittorff the road connecting the Bois de Boulogne and the Place de l'Etoile (now Place Charles de Gaulle ), today Avenue Foch, which the on March 31, 1854 Traffic was passed. A decree of August 13, 1854, also commissioned Hittorff with the structural development of the Place de l'Étoile . As a result, he renewed the central city plan with the "king axis" from the Place de la Concorde via the Champs-Élysées and Place de l'Étoile to the Bois de Boulogne . On March 29, 1929 it was named after Marshal Ferdinand Foch, who had died 9 days earlier . The victory parade of the Wehrmacht units took place there on June 14, 1940 .
Famous artists
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Baroness de Pierrebourg (1856–1943) lived under number 1 and published her works under the pseudonym Claude Ferval . The writer Paul Hervieu (1857–1915) lived in house number 7 ; Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917), who was friends with Hervieu, lived under number 64 (now number 84 ). The writer Édouard Dujardin (1861-1949) lived in house number 14 and the French playwright and screenwriter Alexandre Bisson (1848-1912), who worked on famous Parisian theaters and later also on Broadway in New York, lived in number 22 . In addition to the fashion designer Jacques Doucet (1853–1929), the writer Henry Bataille (1872–1922) , who focused on dramas and poems, lived in number 46 . Just a few doors down (number 56) resided the journalist and writer Alfred Fabre-Luce (1899–1983), who came from a wealthy banking family and whose grandfather had once founded Crédit Lyonnais .
The actor Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin, who was born in 1903 in Marseille and who became famous as pastor Don Camillo and under his stage name Fernandel, lived in house number 44 . He had already come to Paris in 1928 and at the end of his career lived in this house, where he died on February 26, 1971 as a result of cancer. The opera singer Maria Callas also lived here temporarily .
The playwright and playwright Adolphe Dennery (1811–1899) died in house number 59 on January 25, 1899 and lived at number 60 - next to the actress Elvire Popesco (1894–1993), who was originally from Romania and who had appeared in several silent films - also the playwright Georges Feydeau (1862–1921). The painter and graphic artist James Tissot (1836–1902) lived in house 78 .
Other famous residents
Paul Lebaudy (1859–1937), a member of the industrialist family who got rich in the 19th century by building a sugar empire, lived at number 15 . The French economist and free trader Michel Chevalier (1806–1879) had the building number 27 built in 1862, which he lived in until his death. The aviation entrepreneur Marcel Dassault (1892–1986) owned house number 72, which later became the property of the Saudi prince Sultan ibn Abd al-Aziz (1928–2011), who had been crown prince since 2005 and thus the second most powerful man of Saudi Arabia was. The Onassis and Rothschild families also owned property here. Since 1961, Gunter Sachs owned a 400 square meter apartment in house number 32.
Christina Onassis (1950–1988) inherited building number 88 and sold it to the Lebanese billionaire Rafiq al-Hariri (1944–2005), a former prime minister of Lebanon who was killed in a bomb attack on his car convoy . For his part, Hariri sold the house for the sum of 36 million euros to the former high-ranking Syrian politician Abd-al Halim Khaddam (* 1932), who served as foreign minister between 1970 and 1984 and vice-president from 1984 to 2005.
Two direct descendants of the former director of the former French central bank Banque de France , Alphonse de Rothschild (1827–1905), resided in the building with number 19: first Béatrice de Rothschild (1864–1934) and later her younger brother Édouard de Rothschild ( 1868-1949).
Sheikh Mohammed Mahdi Al Tajir owned house number 34 during his time as ambassador of the United Arab Emirates in France. According to a London newspaper report from 1975, the Sheikh, who worked in the oil business, was one of the richest men in the world. From 1940 to 1944, the headquarters of the Gestapo were located at 84 Avenue Foch.
Buildings and monuments
On Avenue Foch is the Monument à Alphand sculpture , created by Aimé Jules Dalou in 1898 .
The building at 59 avenue Foch houses two museums :
- The Musée Arménien with a collection of Armenian art .
- The Musée National d'Ennery , which is based on the private art collection of Adolphe d'Ennery (1811–1899).
The Square Foch
At number 80, just before the end of the street in a westerly direction, is Square Foch , an exclusive private street, which is only accessible to residents . The writer Marcel Pagnol (1895–1974) lived at number 16 there . House number 22 was owned by the pianist Arthur Rubinstein (1887–1982) and the composer Claude Debussy (1862–1918) died in number 24 .
literature
- Chris Boicos et al. a .: Paris . RV Reise- und Verkehrsverlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-89480-901-9 , p. 200
Web links
- Data on avenue Foch on the official website of the city of Paris (French)
- insecula.com: Avenue Foch (en., fr.)
- parisrama.com: Avenue Foch (en., fr.)
- paris.org: "Musée National d'Ennery / Musée Arménien" (en.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b www.apophtegme.com, accessed on January 14, 2008 ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.2 MB)
- ↑ GUNTER SACHS: The best match . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1962 ( online ).
- ↑ www.global-prayer-digest.org ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/31/a2659331.shtml
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 25 ″ N , 2 ° 17 ′ 19 ″ E