Avenue Marceau
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ' N , 2 ° 18' E
| Avenue Marceau | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 8th , 16th |
| quarter | Chaillot Champs-Élysées |
| Beginning | 6, avenue du President-Wilson |
| The End | Place Charles-de-Gaulle |
| morphology | |
| length | 910 m |
| width | 40 m |
| history | |
| Emergence | 1854 |
| designation | August 16, 1879 |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 5923 |
The Avenue Marceau is a 910 meter long and 40 meter wide street in Paris . It forms the border between the 8th arrondissement in the east (even numbers) and the 16th arrondissement in the west (odd numbers). The street begins in the south at number 6 on avenue du Président-Wilson and ends in the north at Place Charles-de-Gaulle with the triumphal arch .
location
The street begins on Avenue du Président-Wilson , on Place de l'Alma , and ends on Place Charles-de-Gaulle .
The bus of the RATP 92 here has several stops.
Name origin
The street, which was given its current name in 1879 in honor of the French general François Séverin Marceau (1769–1796), had previously been called Avenue Joséphine for twelve years .
history
The street was laid out between the Rue de Presbourg and the Place Charles-de-Gaulle (then still Place de l'Étoile ) by decree of August 13, 1854 . On March 6, 1858, it was extended from Rue de Presbourg and Avenue du Trocadéro (then still Avenue de l'Empereur ) under the name "Avenue de Joséphine". The current name was fixed on August 16, 1879. The "Rue Marceau" in the 12th arrondissement was renamed Rue de Wattignies with the same decree .
Attractions
- No. 5: houses the Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent Foundation and was formerly the seat of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent (1936–2008), which became the Musée Yves Saint Laurent de Paris in October 2017 .
- No. 11: Octavio Paz Library of the Instituto Cervantes
- No. 22: Seat of the Spanish Embassy in France .
- No. 31: Église Saint-Pierre-de-Chaillot
- No. 48: As an adolescent, Leslie Caron (* 1931) lived for a few years on the fifth floor with a balcony all around.
- No. 61: The British metallurgist Sidney Thomas (1850–1885) died here at the age of 34.
- No. 64: The luxury hotel InterContinental is located here .
- No. 70: The actress Marthe Brandès (1862–1930) lived in an apartment in the house.
- No. 81: belonged to Pierre-Gabriel Chandon de Briailles, a former co-owner of the Moët & Chandon champagne house .
Facade of the Hôtel InterContinental Marceau , no.64
Hôtel Houette, No. 78
Hôtel Duprada, No. 42
Octavio Paz Library , No. 11
House number 30
In the 1980s there were attacks on two houses on the street by the radical left-wing terrorist organization Action Directe : on April 15, 1980, by means of a misguided rocket, against the Hachette Livre publishing group on the fourth floor of number 83 , which was actually responsible for the fifth floor located office of the Ministry of Transport was intended. On August 19, 1982 and April 14, 1985, there were two assassinations of the premises of the politically right-wing weekly Minute in House 48 .
Famous residents
- Mylène Farmer (1961-), Chanteuse (de 1988 à 1994).
- Marthe Brandès (1862–1930), comedian (No. 70, 1910)
- Albert Vandal ( 1853 - 1910 ), historian of the French Academy (nr 32 1910.).
Plaque at No. 61 in honor of the engineer Sidney Gilchrist Thomas , who died here.
Plaque at No. 79bis in honor of the aviation pioneer Pierre-Georges Latécoère .
Others
As a budding actress, Sophie Marceau (* 1966 as Sophie Maupu) was looking for a new surname to use as a stage name . Allegedly she was at Place Charles-de-Gaulle when she supposedly got the idea to walk around the Arc de Triomphe and look at the street signs in search of a suitable artist name. She decided on the name Marceau .
A book by Hervé Chayette published in 2005 is entitled 76, avenue Marceau , under which a talk show in the series Un livre un jour was produced.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The name was chosen in honor of Joséphine de Beauharnais .
- ^ "Avenue Marceau"
- ↑ Leslie Caron: Thank Heaven ... , JR Books, London, 2009, p. 36 / ISBN 978-1-906779-24-5
- ↑ cf. Plaque on Commons
- ↑ 16ème ARRONDISSEMENT - Paris Révolutionnaire ( Memento of the original of August 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French)
- ↑ Video of the book launch: Hervé Chayette: 76, avenue Marceau
