Avenue Kléber
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 11 " N , 2 ° 17 ′ 32" E
| Avenue Kléber | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 16. |
| quarter | Chaillot |
| Beginning | Place Charles-de-Gaulle |
| The End | Place du Trocadéro-et-du-Onze-Novembre |
| morphology | |
| length | 1135 m |
| width | 36 m |
| history | |
| Emergence | 1863 |
| designation | August 16, 1879 |
| Original names | Avenue Kléber Boulevard de Passy Boulevard de Longchamp Chemin de ronde des Bassins Chemin de ronde de Longchamp Avenue du Roi-de-Rome |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 5055 |
The Avenue Kléber is a street in the 16th arrondissement of Paris .
location
The 1,135 meter long and 36 meter wide street runs from Place Charles de Gaulle with the triumphal arch to Place du Trocadéro .
The metro line runs directly under Avenue Kléber with two stations at the beginning ( Charles de Gaulle - Étoile ) and the end ( Trocadéro ) of the street and two stations directly under it: Kléber and Boissière . In addition, the bus routes RATP 22, 30, N53, 82 run in the street.
Name origin
The street bears its name in honor of the Revolutionary General Jean-Baptiste Kléber (1753-1800), who was appointed Commander-in-Chief of Egypt under Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821) . He was murdered on June 14, 1800 in Cairo , the capital . Before the street was given its current name by a decree effective August 16, 1879, it was called Avenue du Roi de Rome . Napoléon II (1811-1832) was honored with this designation , who had been named "King of Rome" by his father shortly after his birth.
history
The avenue owes its emergence to the establishment of the outer boulevard on the customs wall ( French mur d'octroi ) by decree of February 16, 1789. Thus, the boulevard was in the territory of the former municipality of Passy until its annexation by Paris (1860); the street was officially added to the Paris road network on May 23, 1863.
- Development of the avenue Kléber route
Street layout of the Avenue Kléber along the customs wall
Longchamp and Passy boulevards in 1827
1860 with the wall and Rue Guerlain being demolished
The French company BF Goodrich, which set up a tire factory in Colombes in 1911 , was renamed Kléber-Colombes in 1945 and Kléber in 1962 after its headquarters were set up on avenue Kléber. The company was taken over by Michelin in 1981 .
Attractions
The Majestic Hotel
The Russian collector Alexander Basilewski had a luxurious house built on the site of today's number 19 in 1864, which was initially called the Hotel Basilewski (Basilewski House). After the Spanish Queen Isabella II (1830–1904) had been deposed in September 1868, she fled to France and acquired the house, which was henceforth called Palais de Castille (Palace of Castile). On June 25, 1870, she officially renounced the crown in favor of her son Alfons XII. (1857–1885), who ascended the throne in 1875 after the re-establishment of the monarchy. Isabella then returned to Spain and lived partly there and partly in Paris, where she died on April 9, 1904.
The house was demolished in 1906 and the Hôtel Majestic (Hotel Majestic) was built in its place ; a luxury hotel that now in the neighboring Rue Dumont d'Urville is located. During the German occupation of France in World War II from 1940 to 1944, this was the headquarters of the French Military Commander (MBF) and his central departments. The MBF had a bunker built next to the hotel; this was demolished after the war. After the Second World War, the Hôtel Majestic became the seat of UNESCO on September 16, 1946 . In the late summer of 1958, it moved to its new headquarters on 'Place de Fontenoy'. From 1958 to 1960, the building was converted into an international conference center by the architect Jacques Carlu on behalf of the French Foreign Ministry. After Quatari Diar bought the property in April 2008, the building became a luxury hotel again. It opened in August 2014 as the Hotel The Peninsula Paris .
The other hotel, Majestic
The plot of his novel Maigret and the cellars of the Majestic lets Georges Simenon (1903-1989), who wrote a total of 75 Maigret novels, take place in a Hotel Majestic in Paris, which, however, is not identical to the actually existing hotel on Avenue Kléber . His hotel was on Avenue des Champs-Élysées - another avenue in Paris, also connected to Place Charles de Gaulle and 90 degrees to the left of the beginning of Avenue Kléber (viewed from there) - and it was actually that Hôtel Claridge (under number 74 there).
The Hotel Raphael
Number 17 is the Hotel Raphael, which is one of the Leading Hotels of the World and received the Best Recognition Award for the world's third best hotel in the category of these luxury hotels in January 2008 . In the same month, his bar was named the best hotel bar in Europe with the Prix Villegiature .
Because of these salient features, it is not surprising that the Hotel Raphael has always been a popular spot for celebrities from the show business. At the end of the 1950s, Hollywood greats Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift lived in the Hotel Raphael during the shooting of the film The Young Lions, as did the couple Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman and the actress Leslie Caron .
Other noteworthy addresses
- No. 8: Embassies from Iceland
- No. 17: Hotel Raphael
- No. 19: Formerly Hôtel Majestic, now Hotel The Peninsula Paris
- No. 50: Embassies of Peru
- No. 52: Aristide Briand died here on March 7, 1932
- No. 71: The composer Henri Busser (1872–1973) lived here.
- No. 88: Hôtel Baltimore, where the silent film star Max Linder and his wife committed suicide on October 31, 1925 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.ihtp.cnrs.fr (Center national de la recherche scientifique) ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archiwebture - Fund Carlu, Jacques (1890-1976). 010 Ifa . Archiwebture.citechaillot.fr. March 13, 2006. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
- ↑ Le Center des conférences internationales de l'avenue Kléber transformé en palace :: Actualités Paris :: . Paris.evous.fr. Archived from the original on March 2, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
- ↑ www.majestic-hotel.com (homepage)
- ↑ Maigret of the Month: Les Caves du Majestic . Trussel.com. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
- ↑ a b www.raphael-hotel.com/
- ↑ Leslie Caron: Thank Heaven ... , JR Books, London, 2009, pp. 128f / ISBN 978-1-906779-24-5
- ^ Jacques Hillairet, Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris , Éditions de Minuit , Vol. 1, p. 698
- ^ Henri Busser et l'orgue . Musimem.com. March 24, 2001. Retrieved July 12, 2010.