Avenue d'Iéna
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ' N , 2 ° 18' E
| Avenue d'Iéna | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 16. |
| quarter | Chaillot |
| Beginning | 6, Avenue Albert-de-Mun |
| The End | Place Charles-de-Gaulle |
| morphology | |
| length | 1140 m |
| width | 36 m |
| history | |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 4603 |
The Avenue d'Iéna is a 1,140 meter long and 36 meter wide road in Quartier Chaillot the 16th arrondissement of Paris .
location
The street connects two of the most famous sights of the French capital: It starts on the Avenue Albert de Mun , which leads directly past the Palais de Chaillot , which is on the other side of the Seine directly opposite the Eiffel Tower , and ends at Place Charles de Gaulle , in the middle of which is the triumphal arch .
The street can be reached from the Charles de Gaulle - Étoile and Iéna metro stations .
Name origin
The street got its name in memory of Napoleon's victorious battle of October 14, 1806 near Jena and Auerstedt .
history
The road roughly follows the route of a village road in the former village of Chaillot, where the pavilion of Henry IV and Gabrielle d'Estrées was.
The street was opened by decree of March 6, 1858 with a width of 40 m between the Trocadéro ( Avenue Albert-de-Mun ) and the Rue de Presbourg . This also dissolved the Rue des Batailles , which led from the Avenue Albert-de-Mun to the Place d'Iéna.
Attractions
A total of four cultural monuments of the 16th arrondissement are located on the street and on the Place d'Iéna in its southern section .
- No. 1: The entire block between Avenue d'Iena, the Avenue Albert de Mun and the Avenue du President Wilson engaging and on its northeast side at number 9 of the Place d'Iéna ending Palais d'Iéna . This was built in 1937 by Auguste Perret . Originally used as a transport museum, it now houses the Economic, Social and Environmental Council of France .
- No. 6: on the Place d'Iéna is the Guimet Museum , built in 1889 , which is located on the north side of the square and occupies the entire block between the Avenue d'Iéna, the Rue Boissière and the Rue de Lübeck .
- No. 10: the Hôtel du Prince Roland Bonaparte , built in the last decade of the 19th century by the architect Ernest Janty and modified in 1929 by Michel Roux-Spitz . In 2005 the building was acquired by the hotel chain Shangri-La and converted into a luxury hotel with 109 rooms, including 40 suites. The hotel opened in 2010.
- No. 17: Goethe Institute in Paris
- No. 56: the Hôtel Trumet de Fontarce , which today houses the Egyptian embassy in France.
fiction
The avenue d'Iéna is also the subject of the 1961 novel Thunderball (later filmed under the title James Bond 007 - Fireball ) by Ian Fleming , whereby the author does not attribute the best qualities to the residents of the street:
- Not the richest - the Avenue d'Iéna has that distinction - but rich people are not necessarily solid people and too many of the landlords and tenants in the Avenue d'Iéna have names ending in “escu”, “ovitch”, “ski” , and "stein", and these are sometimes not the endings of respectable names. Moreover, the Avenue d'Iéna is almost entirely residential. The occasional discreet brass plates giving the name of a holding company in Liechtenstein or in the Bahamas or the Canton de Vaud in Switzerland are there for tax purposes only - the cover names for private family fortunes seeking alleviation from the punitive burden of the Revenue, or , more briefly, tax-dodging.
- (Translation: Not the richest (street) - avenue d'Iéna is considered to be such - but rich people are not necessarily good people and too many of their owners and tenants have names beginning with "escu", "ovitch", "ski" and "stone" end, and which are sometimes not the endings of respectable name. in addition, the Avenue d'Iéna nearly a residential street. the occasional discreet brass plate bearing the name of a holding company in Liechtenstein , the Bahamas or the canton of Vaud in of Switzerland wearing, are there only for tax reasons - as a code name for private family assets that are looking for a way to reduce their extremely high tax debts to the State or, in short, commit tax evasion. )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Philippe Siguret, Bertrand Lemoine : Vie et histoire du XIVe arrondissement (Edition Hervas, Paris 1991), p. 128
- ↑ www.paris-pittoresque.com/ (French)
- ↑ Film Locations: Thunderball (1961) by Ian Fleming ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
