Avenue Victor-Hugo

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With a length of 1,765 meters (its width is 36 meters), Avenue Victor-Hugo is one of the longest streets in the 16th arrondissement of Paris . It runs from Place Charles-de-Gaulle with the triumphal arch to Place Tattegrain ( Avenue Henri-Martin ).

history

House number 124, taken from rue de la Pompe . The namesake of the street died here.

The street is named after the French writer Victor Hugo (1802-1885), who himself lived and died on this street. At that time, however, it was still called Avenue d'Eylau and with this name it commemorated the battle of Prussian Eylau in February 1807 . Before that, the street was called Avenue de Saint-Cloud because it was and is a connecting road from Paris to the posh suburb of Saint-Cloud , about ten kilometers to the west . Its first name was Avenue Charles-X in honor of the last ruler of France who had the title "King of France and Navarre ": Charles X Philippe (1757-1836).

Place Victor-Hugo

Even in the old village of Passy , which was added to Paris in 1860, this square was a central traffic junction, which at the time was called Place de Passy . Today, the Victor Hugo metro station is located under the square , on the route of line 2 . It is the last stop before Porte Dauphine , the terminus to the west .

Notable residents and buildings

  • From 1881 , Victor Hugo spent the last years of his life in house number 124 and he died there on May 22, 1885.
  • Lysius Salomon , who was President of Haiti for nine years (1879–1888), lived in house number 3 .
  • On the street is the Musée Dapper , named after the Dutch humanist and Africa researcher Olfert Dapper , where friends of the black continent get their money's worth. The museum, whose entrance is in the neighboring Rue Paul-Valéry , offers a permanent exhibition of sculptures, paintings and photographs from sub-Saharan Africa as well as from countries with cultures of sub-African origin (such as Latin America ).
  • Also on this street is the Saint-Honoré d'Eylau church, built in 1855 ( Place Victor-Hugo No. 9) and the Catholic private school of the same name (Avenue Victor-Hugo No. 117).
  • The republics of Benin (number 87) and Nigeria (number 173) maintain their embassies here .
  • The office of Asterix co-inventor and comic artist Albert Uderzo is in house number 26

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philippe Siguret, Bertrand Lemoine : Vie et historie du XVIe arrondissement (Editions Hervas, Paris 1991), p. 26

Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 9 ″  N , 2 ° 17 ′ 2 ″  E