Boulevard de Magenta

Boulevard de Magenta
	; Boulevard de Magenta
location
Arrondissement	9th , 10th
quarter	Saint-Vincent-de-Paul ; Porte-Saint-Denis ; Porte-Saint-Martin
Beginning	Place de la République; 1, Rue Beaurepaire
The End	1, 53 Boulevard de Rochechouart; , Boulevard de la Chapelle
morphology
length	1920 m
width	30 m
history
Emergence	1855-1858
designation	1859
Original names	Rue de la Barrière-Poissonnière ; Rue du Nord ; Boulevard du Nord
Coding
Paris	5835

The Parisian street Boulevard de Magenta with its 1920 meters crosses the border between the 9th and 10th arrondissement . In everyday life, the name is often shortened to Boul '(vard) magenta .

location

The boulevard begins at the corner of Place de la République and Rue Beaurepaire and ends at the corner of Boulevard de Rochechouart and Boulevard de la Chapelle . It runs roughly in a north-westerly direction. After about 1400 meters, Rue La Fayette crosses, which is also where the district boundary runs. The extension of the street after the Boulevard de Rochechouart further north is the Boulevard Barbès .

In 1980 the road was declared an ax rouge , despite its width of 30 meters , in order to reduce emissions from road traffic. Since then, only one lane per direction of travel has been available for motorized private transport.

Directly at Paris' Gare du Nord is the station of the RER E rapid transit line , which opened in July 1999 and is called Magenta Station , but is not directly below the boulevard, but more than 300 meters away.

The following metro stations are on the boulevard:

Original name

The boulevard is named after the Battle of Magenta in Lombardy in 1859. The road was completed in the same year. During the planning phase and during construction it was still called Rue du Nord .

Boulevard de Magenta
No. 10 of the boulevard

Significant places

Along the street, some marble plaques attached to the house facades remind of events at the respective locations:

No. 3: Jacques Bonsergent lived here , the first Parisian to be shot during the German occupation of Paris in December 1940.

No. 5: Haussmann-style building with an inner courtyard that opens onto the boulevard through an archway worked on by François Théophile Murgey. Murgey worked on the decoration of Napoleon III's apartments . in the Louvre .

No. 10: This is where the architect Paul Sédille (1836–1900) lived, who was particularly famous for the redesign of the Printemps department store .

No. 11: The house from 1887 is the work of the architect Louis Gauché . The monumental, allegorical figures on the facade symbolize modern science.

General view of No. 5
No. 5: Entrance by François Théophile Murgey
General view of No. 11
No. 11: Allegory of the Sciences
No. 11: Allegory of Industry

No. 19: Building from the years 1867–1869, facade with two consoles depicting Heracles and the Nemean Lion , built by the architect Paul Sédille , who lived there. The sculptor Henri Chapu (1833-1891) also worked there.
No. 24: Location of the Véry restaurant , where the anarchist François Claudius Koënigstein, alias Ravachol , was arrested on March 30, 1892. In revenge, like-minded people carried out a bomb attack here on the morning of April 25th.

No. 19: Entrance
No. 19: Window on the 2nd floor
Ravachol is arrested in front of house number 24
State after the explosion in Restaurant Véry No. 24 on April 25, 1892

No. 50: Haussmann-style building with a facade of two caryatids by Charles Gauthier (1831–1883).
No. 52: Haussmann-style building, built in 1869 by L. Higonet. This is where Ginette Neveu was born and lived here.
No. 68: Saint-Laurent parish church , built between 1863 and 1867

South facade of the Église Saint-Laurent next to the Square Saint-Laurent

No. 85 bis: Market hall Marché Saint-Quentin from 1866, a metal construction by Victor Baltard .
No. 100: This is where the fathers of the “roman national” Alexandre Chatrian and Émile Erckmann met regularly to write together under the pseudonym Erckmann-Chatrian ( La Taverne du jambon de Mayence ). The proximity to the Gare de Paris-Est allowed them to frequent Lorraine regularly.
No. 106: Building where Léona Delcourt (who had a brief affair with André Breton ), better known as "Nadja", stayed at the Sphinx Hotel (named after the sphinx heads visible on the facade) when she arrived in Paris .
No. 110: The painter Georges Seurat lived here
No. 115: Baron Edmond Rothschild lived here , whose apartment was redesigned in 1934 by the architect Germain Debré (18901948).
No. 155: The painter Luigi Loir lived here
No. 170: The Le Louxor cinema (facade and ceiling are listed buildings )