Avenue Bugeaud

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Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '  N , 2 ° 17'  E

Avenue Bugeaud
location
Arrondissement 16.
quarter Porte-Dauphine
Beginning 8, Place Victor-Hugo
The End 77, Avenue Foch
morphology
length 542 m
width 15 m
history
designation 1864
Original names Avenue Dauphine
Coding
Paris 1367

The Avenue Bugeaud is a 542 meter long and 15 meter wide street in the neighborhood Porte Dauphine of the 16th arrondissement of Paris .

location

The avenue starts at number 8 on Place Victor-Hugo and ends at number 77 on Avenue Foch .

At each end there is a metro station , Porte Dauphine and Victor Hugo with the line . There is also a bus stop, RATP 52. Metro-M.svg Paris Metro 2.svgParis bus icon.svg

Name origin

Thomas Robert Bugeaud

The avenue bears the name of Thomas Robert Bugeaud (1784–1849). He was Marshal of France and led the conquest of Algeria in the 1840s .

history

This path belonged to the former municipalities of Passy and Neuilly until it was incorporated into Paris in this area in 1860 and was named Avenue Dauphine (until 1864) because it leads in the direction of Porte Dauphine , located in the middle of the Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny which is at the west end of Avenue Foch .

Attractions

Web links

Commons : Avenue Bugeaud  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Rochegude: https://archive.org/details/promenadesdansto08rochuoft/mode/2up (French)