Boulevards des Maréchaux

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View of the Boulevard MacDonald with the construction site of the new tram line 3

As Boulevards of the Marshals (boulevards dt. The marshals) refers to the approximately circular inner link road, which in the 1860s Thiers'schen fortification of Paris was born. This ring road replaced the former rue militaire, a connecting road only accessible to the army, by a series of spacious boulevards accessible to the general public. The individual boulevards were named after marshals of the Napoleonic army . This naming policy was part of the propaganda strategy of the Second French Empire under Napoleon III. and should by resorting to the marshals of Napoleon I . strengthen the popularity of the regime. Bruix , Jean Simon and Martial Valin , after whom sections are also named today, do not belong to this group. Of the 26 marshals of the First Empire only 19 have “their” section.

history

The forerunner of the Boulevards des Maréchaux was the old military road within the fortification belt created by Adolphe Thiers from 1840–1845 , which linked the individual Paris city ​​gates . At an average distance of 150 m out of town, the boulevard périphérique, which was built in the 1960s, runs parallel today . The Boulevards des Maréchaux, on the other hand, are not an urban motorway, the normal speed limit of 50 km / h applies to them. In the former zone non aedificandi between these boulevards and the ring road, many social buildings were built in the interwar period, including schools and buildings for other social institutions, some also public green and the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris . Line 3 of the Paris tram , which is therefore also called Tramway des Marechaux, now runs on large parts of the Boulevard des Marechaux . The line was opened in 2006 with a first section in the south, in December 2012 a considerable extension in the east and north to the Porte de la Chapelle was put into operation and a further extension to the Porte d'Asnières is under construction.

In the immediate vicinity of the ring boulevard one can find among other things

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adolphe Alphand (eds.), Adrien Deville et Émile Hochereau, Ville de Paris: Recueil des lettres patentes, ordonnances royales, décrets et arrêtés préfectoraux concernant les voies publiques, Paris, Imprimerie nouvelle (association ouvrière), 1886, “Décret du 29 septembre 1861 », p. 326