Boulevard Haussmann

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Boulevard Haussmann
location
Arrondissement 8.
9
quarter Madeleine
Europe
Faubourg-du-Roule
Faubourg-Montmartre
Chaussée-d'Antin
Beginning 1, Rue Drouot
2, Boulevard des Italiens
The End 202, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
morphology
length 2530 m
width 30 and 33.60 m
history
designation March 2, 1864
Coding
Paris 4437

The Boulevard Haussmann [ bulvaʁ os.man ] is a 2,530 meter long boulevard in Paris , which runs through the 8th and 9th arrondissement between the intersection of the Boulevard des Italiens / Boulevard Montmartre and the intersection of Rue de Monceau / Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré runs. Its northwest extension is the Avenue de Friedland .

location

This street starts in the area of ​​the headquarters of large banks, passes department stores often associated with his name, and then crosses areas with upscale offices. The boulevard was built by workers, most of whom were bricklayers from the Creuse department .

Boulevard Hausmann can be reached via the following metro stations :

Name origin

Baron Haussmann, 1860

The boulevard is named after Georges-Eugène Haussmann , who gave Paris a modern cityscape in the mid-19th century that has been preserved to this day. Baron Haussmann (1809-1891) was a French administrator and politician who, as prefect of the Seine department, led the transformation of Paris during the Second Empire .

history

In contrast to the Grands Boulevards , the 30 to 33.60 meter wide Boulevard Haussmann was not built on part of the former Paris city walls , but was to become another fast connection. With his numerous arterial roads, Haussmann changed the medieval street labyrinth into a manageable urban landscape that could be quickly dominated in a military emergency. Haussmann, who came from a respected family of Palatine Evangelical Lutheran pastors on his mother's side, had only held his office as prefect and Parisian city planner since June 23, 1853, and began construction on the boulevard on October 17, 1857. He and his head were shocked Civil engineer Eugène Belgrand did not retreat even before numerous house demolitions. He drove the boulevard block by block in 6 construction phases, in order to ultimately establish a connection to the boulevard Montmartre . New structures had to align with the planned course of the road. On March 2, 1864, the boulevard was given its current street name. When the Printemps department store moved into No. 64 on May 11, 1865, the boulevard was finished at this point. After Haussmann's term of office ended on January 5, 1870, construction only began on the last section of the boulevard, which now connects it with the boulevard Montmartre. The numbering of the houses has only existed since December 23, 1880. There were further structural changes until January 12, 1922, when the boulevard continued to rue Taitbout . Only after 70 years of interrupted construction was the boulevard fully completed in December 1926. On January 15, 1927, the last section of Boulevard Haussmann, which began in 1870 and now connects it with Boulevard Montmartre, was opened to traffic. For this purpose, 14 buildings on the north side of the Boulevard des Italiens had to be demolished. Haussmann did not live to see the completion of the boulevard because he died on January 11, 1891.

Attractions

The famous French daily Le Figaro has had its headquarters here since 2005. The Galeries Lafayette department store was originally not located directly on the boulevard, but only extensions to No. 40 in 1906. The opening of the reinforced concrete skeleton construction of the second large Lafayette department store with the 73 meter high glass dome took place on October 8, 1912. The essayist Marcel Proust lived in no. 102 between 1906 and 1919. At no. 132 is the statue of Haussmann, and no. 158 houses the Musée Jacquemart-André in a former hotel particulier . The museum exhibits an important art collection, ranging from old Italian masterpieces to French works from the 19th century. The boulevard has developed into a famous Parisian shopping street with its numerous exquisite shops and boutiques.

17, Vol Haussmann, Danone Headquarters
Board at house number 102

The big banks

Société Générale headquarters , house number 29

Chanson

“Ça s'passe boul'vard Haussmann à cinq heures” begins a song from 1988 by Alain Souchon (author and interpreter) and Laurent Voulzy (composer).

Movie

Large parts of the film Elevator to the Scaffold (1958) by Louis Malle are set on Boulevard Haussmann near Rue de Courcelles .

Famous residents

Web links

Commons : Boulevard Haussmann  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Hofer, Karl Brunner and European Urban Planning in Latin America , 2010, p. 55
  2. ↑ August Waldner, in: Schweizerische Bauzeitung , Volume 89, 1927, p. 63
  3. ↑ L´hôtel Commodore se veut «intelligent»
  4. ↑ Bernard Génies and Jean-Gabriel Fredet, "Le casse de Hitler. À la recherche des chefs-d'œuvre volés aux Juifs ”, Le Nouvel Observateur No. 2575, March 13, 2014, pp. 64–77.
  5. ↑ Quoted from Henri Raczymow, Le Paris retrouvé de Marcel Proust , Paris, Parigramme, 2005, p. 70. He writes to Mme Catusse, an old friend of his mother: “Ce n'est même pas démodé dans le sens charmant du mot. »

Coordinates: 48 ° 53 '  N , 2 ° 19'  E