Avenue de Montespan

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

Avenue de Montespan
The street on the side of Avenue Victor-Hugo
location
Arrondissement	16.
quarter	Porte Dauphine
Beginning	177, avenue Victor-Hugo
The End	99-103, rue de la Pompe
morphology
length	160 m
width	7 m
history
Coding
Paris	6415

The Avenue de Montespan is a 160 meters long and 7 meters wide closed private street in the Porte Dauphine quarter of the 16th arrondissement of Paris .

location

The street begins at number 177 on avenue Victor-Hugo and ends at numbers 99-103 on rue de la Pompe opposite the south side of the Lycée Janson de Sailly .

Entrance on avenue Victor-Hugo

Name origin

Her name is reminiscent of Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de Montespan (1641–1707), the favorite of Louis XIV (1638–1715).

history

The writer and literary critic Arsène Houssaye (1815-1896) had the road built in 1856.

The houses on the private road were numbered in 1979 and connected to the public sewer system in 1981.

Attractions

• No. 2: Parisian Temple of Zoroastrianism

Web links

Commons : Avenue de Montespan (Paris)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Philippe Siguret, Bertrand Lemoine : Vie et histoire du XIVe arrondissement (Edition Hervas, Paris 1991), p. 137
2. ↑ Marquis de Rochegude: Promenades dans toutes les rues de Paris par arrondissements (French)