Avenue du Général Leclerc
Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ' N , 2 ° 20' E
| Avenue du Général Leclerc | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 14th |
| quarter | Petit-Montrouge |
| Beginning | 13-32, Place Denfert-Rochereau |
| The End | 203, Boulevard Jourdan and 110, Boulevard Brune |
| morphology | |
| length | 1235 m |
| width | 34 m |
| history | |
| designation | Decree of February 10, 1948 |
| Original names | Route d'Orléans Avenue d'Orléans |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 4036 |
The Avenue du Général Leclerc is a 1,235 meter long and 34 meter wide street and one of the main arteries in the 14th arrondissement of Paris . It begins at Place Denfert-Rochereau and ends at Boulevards Brune and Jourdan . Their "continuation" in the north is the avenue Denfert-Rochereau and in the south the avenue de la Porte d'Orléans .
Location and transport links
With the exception of its beginning, where it grazes Montparnasse on its west side between Place Denfert-Rochereau and Rue Daguerre , the street otherwise belongs exclusively to the Petit-Montrouge district , in the geographical center of which it runs from north to south as a double-lane street.
Line 4 of the Paris Métro runs below the street and has four stations here. These are from north to south: Denfert-Rochereau , Mouton-Duvernet , Alésia and Porte d'Orléans , which is also the terminus of the Tramway d'Île-de-France 3a . The bus routes RATP 28, 38, 62, N 14, N 21, N 122 also operate here .
Name origin
The name of this avenue is a tribute to Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (November 22, 1902 - November 28, 1947), General Commander of the 2nd Armored Division . He had taken this artery when he marched into the capital on August 25, 1944, coming from the Porte d'Orléans and then in the direction of Montparnasse station ; the station was then chosen to be his command post.
history
The oldest known name of the street is Chemin de Montrouge . Later it was called Grand Chemin du Bourg-la-Reine and then Avenue d'Orléans , before it was given its current name in 1948 in honor of Major General Jacques-Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902–1947), who with his troops Paris on 25 August Liberated from occupation by the Wehrmacht in 1944 .
The street therefore already existed in 1730 when a cartographer named Roussel first created a map of the city of Paris and the surrounding area, which is now known as Plan de Roussel . It is very old because it was part of the Way of St. James as Via Turonensis (also Voie de Tours , German way to Tours ) . For a long time it was a section of the Montrouge area of the N 20 , which connected Paris with Orléans (and further to the border between France and Spain ) under the name "Route d'Orléans". As a result of the expansion of Paris and the annexation of Petit-Montrouge (part of Montrouge), it was incorporated into the Paris road network in 1860 and, by decree of May 23, 1863, became the "Avenue d'Orléans".
The avenue d'Orléans became avenue du Général Leclerc on February 10, 1948 (Philippe Leclerc de Hautecloque died in an accident a few months earlier). The celebrations for the renaming did not take place until the symbolic date June 18, 1949.
Attractions
- No. 5: Café du Lion : Seat of a chess club that was frequented by Lenin in the 20th century . Irony of history: the restaurant was also chosen by the Bolsheviks as a meeting place and is now a McDonald’s .
- No. 15: houses the Hôpital La Rochefoucauld , completed in 1781 , which is one of the cultural monuments of the 14th arrondissement .
- No. 16: Villa Daguerre: typical with its green pavilions in a narrow alley that ends in Rue Boulard.
- No. 26–28: was the Moulin d'Amour , the history of which dates back to the 12th century. The mill was first built in 1191 and burned down three times: the first time it was burned down by English occupiers in 1360, a second time exactly 200 years later (1560) by the imperial troops and for the third time in 1593 on behalf of Henry IV. It was finally destroyed during of the First World War .
- No. 82: there is an entrance to the parish church of St-Pierre de Montrouge, built between 1863 and 1872
- No. 104: Sonia Rykiel's first boutique
- No. 124–126: Gare de Montrouge-Ceinture of the former Chemin de Fer de Petite Ceinture line
- No. 129: The poet Jean Moréas (1856–1910) lived here from 1907 until his death in 1910.
Others
The French writer Henri Calet (1904–1956) praised the street in his work Le Tout sur le Tout (1948) as "our hall in the open sky, our great boulevard , our Champs-Élysées , our Broadway ."
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d René Léon Cottard: Vie et histoire du XIVe arrondissement . Edition Hervas, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-903118-34-5 , p. 131, p. 13, p. 82f, p. 79