Avenue Paul Doumer

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

Avenue Paul Doumer
location
Arrondissement 16.
quarter Muette
Beginning Place du Trocadéro-et-du-11-Novembre
The End 2, Chaussée de la Muette
morphology
length 970 m
width min .: 20 m
max .: 30 m
history
Emergence 1912
designation 1932
Original names Avenue de la Muette
Coding
Paris 7081

The Avenue Paul Doumer is a street in the 16th arrondissement of Paris , in the quarter Muette .

location

The 970 meter long and up to 30 meter wide street begins at Place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre and ends at Rue de Passy no. 82 and Chaussée de la Muette no. 2. At its end, it goes through in a south-westerly direction the avenue Mozart "extended".

The street can be reached with the following public transport:

Name origin

After the murder of the former French President Paul Doumer (1857–1932) in early May 1932, the street was given its current name on July 19, 1932.

history

The street began in 1904 in the section between Rue de la Pompe and Chaussée de la Muette. It was originally called Avenue de la Muette .

Attractions

The majority of the uniform buildings date from after the Second World War , mostly from 1960.

The house was also the location of the French feature film Four in the Red Circle (OT: Le cercle rouge ), which premiered in 1970 . In the film, the gangster Corey (played by Alain Delon ) had an apartment in this house.

literature

Jacques Hillairet , Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris , Vol. II, Éditions de Minuit , 1985, ISBN 2-7073-1054-9

Web links

Commons : Avenue Paul Doumer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Chez Robert Hossein et Mireille Darc dans le 16ème arrondissement de Paris ( Memento of the original of March 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French; article of November 18, 2010) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / news.celemondo.com
  2. Compare the film article in the French language Wikipedia
  3. Film review: Four in the red circle
  4. ^ Biographie de Brigitte Bardot (French, accessed on August 12, 2011)