Passy (Paris)

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View from the Eiffel Tower over the northern section of Passy, ​​with the Bois de Boulogne in the background
View from the Eiffel Tower to the southern section of Passy, ​​with the Seine in the foreground

Passy used to be an independent municipality near Paris on the right bank of the Seine . On January 1, 1860, Passy was incorporated together with other suburbs of Paris and gave the 16th arrondissement its name. The present city district extends far beyond the boundaries of the former village. Passy is an exclusive district in which the affluent upper middle class is mainly settled.

Attractions

The Place du Trocadéro on the highest point of the Chaillot Hill offers undoubtedly the most beautiful view of the Eiffel Tower on the other side of the Seine . This is where the Palais de Chaillot rises with the marine museum ( Musée de la marine ), the ethnological museum ( Musée de l'homme ) and a museum for the history of architecture ( Cité de l'architecture ). In front of the Chaillot Palace in the southeast is a spacious fountain flanked by the two green areas of the Jardins du Trocadéro . The eastern part of the garden houses the hidden underground Aquarium du Trocadéro .

At 2 rue du Commandant Schœlsing there is a cemetery, the Cimetière de Passy , which borders the Place du Trocadéro in the southwest . It contains the graves of Pearl White (American silent film star), the painters Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, and the composers Claude Debussy and Gabriel Fauré .

Other places of interest include the Maison de Balzac at 47 rue Raynouard and the Musée du Vin on rue des Eaux, not far from Passy metro station , which is served by line 6 .

Place of residence of well-known personalities

Since Passy used to be a rural idyll near the city and later one of the preferred residential areas of the French capital, many famous personalities have settled here - at least for a time. The writer Léon-Paul Fargue wrote in 1939:

“Passy is a large province where families know each other, watch each other and sometimes hate each other when only one has more guests, more politicians or poets than the other at their weekly, monthly or annual tea. Neither the proletarians nor the poor have a place in this eternal garden party that takes place year in and year out between Place Victor-Hugo and the Seine. "

Examples

Nicolas Raguenet : Quai and Village of Passy (around 1757)

Alexandre Le Riche de La Pouplinière (1693–1762) the tax tenant ( Ferme générale ) and patron of many well-known musicians and artists, acquired a castle in Passy in 1747.

Passy was the residence of Benjamin Franklin during his nine-year stay in France (1777-1786) at the time of the American War of Independence , from where he received the French support for the struggle for independence alive. His small print shop, Passy Press , produced pamphlets, but also ID cards and the treatise A Project for Perpetual Peace (1782). This mainly related to peace in Europe. Franklin called for a pan-European council to discuss international issues. When Franklin returned to America, the new American ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson, wrote : "When he left Passy, ​​it seemed as if the village had lost its patriarch."

The physicist, manufacturer of optical instruments and preformation theorist Nicolas Hartsoeker lived and worked in Passy from 1684 to 1696 .

The French writer and philologist François-Juste-Marie Raynouard (1761–1836) spent the last years of his life in Passy, ​​as did the historian Joseph François Michaud (1767–1839).

Gioachino Rossini (opera composer, The Barber of Seville ), moved into a villa here in 1855, which he lived in until his death in 1868. It was here in 1863 that he created his last major composition, the Petite Messe solennelle .

Even Victor Hugo was home long in Passy, where he died in the house no. 124 of the designated today after him Avenue 1885th

Desired addresses

Old landmark in Passy

Preferred addresses were:

In the rue Berton (formerly rue du Roc ) was the back exit of Balzac's property on rue Raynouard, via which the writer fled when his creditors came to grips with him.

Another coveted address in the 16th arrondissement has always been the extension of Rue Raynouard , Rue La Fontaine, in the old village of Auteuil . The writer Marcel Proust , among others, was born here.

Daughters and sons of the city

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Article by Marc Zitzmann in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung from January 20, 2006.