Place de Clichy
Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ' N , 2 ° 20' E
| Place de Clichy | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 8th , 9th , 17th , 18th |
| quarter | Europe Saint-Georges Batignolles Grandes-Carrières |
| Junctions | Avenue de Clichy Boulevard des Batignolles Boulevard de Clichy Rue d'Amsterdam Rue de Clichy Rue de Saint-Pétersbourg |
| morphology | |
| history | |
| Original names | Barrière de Fructidor (1793) |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 2115 |
The Place de Clichy (also just called Place Clichy) is a square in the north-west of the French capital Paris .
It is one of only two places in the city where four arrondissements meet: the 8th , 9th , 17th and 18th arrondissements. Place Pigalle , Montmartre Cemetery and Saint-Lazare train station are nearby .
Location and access
The streets leading from the boulevard périphérique (Porte de Saint-Ouen and Porte de Clichy ) to the city center and from the Place Charles de Gaulle to the Pigalle district cross at the lively square .
Métro lines 2 and 13 meet in the station of the same name under Place de Clichy . Bus routes 30, 54, 68, 74, 80, 81 and 95 as well as night bus routes 01, 02, 15 and 51 reach the square. There is also a taxi station.
Between 2008 and 2010 the square was redesigned with a pedestrian zone , cycle paths and new trees.
Name origin
The city gate Barrière de Clichy, through which the path to the village of Clichy led , was formerly located on the wall of the Mur des Fermiers généraux .
history
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The Place de Clichy was built after the French Revolution on the then city limits between Paris and Clichy. The place belonged to the former municipality of Batignolles and was called "Place" and "Barrière de Clichy" from 1789 to 1814. In 1793 the square was built on the site of the former building of the Barrière de Clichy, which in 1793 had been renamed "Barrière Fructidor".
On March 30, 1814, General Bon-Adrien-Jeannot de Moncey defended Paris on Place de Clichy without success against Russian units attacking during the Wars of Liberation .
A special feature of the Place de Clichy is that it was not planned in terms of urban development, so that the facades on the square, unlike many other Parisian squares, do not offer a homogeneous overall impression.
Worth seeing
In the middle of the square is a memorial whose erection by Napoleon III in 1869 . commissioned. It commemorates the defense of Paris by Moncey against the Prussian and Russian troops during the Battle of Paris in 1814. This is represented by a six-meter-high bronze group created by Amédée Doublemard on the eight-meter-high pedestal decorated with bas-reliefs . The architect Edmond Guillaume was commissioned with the realization of this monument .
Place de Clichy around 1900
Place de Clichy as seen from Rue de Clichy
Place de Clichy (1939)
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The Place de Clichy in art
- In 1912, Pierre Bonnard presented the square in a picture ( Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon ), seen from the terrace of the Brasserie Wepler .
- Michel Polnareff cited the place in a chanson entitled Rosy in the album Polnareff (1974).
- The place appears in the chanson Le Film de Polanski (album Raconte-toi , 1975) by the singer-songwriter Yves Simon : “Dans un ciné / Place de Clichy / Y avait un film / De Polanski / Pas Chinatown / Mais Cul-de- sac / Celui avec / Françoise Dorléac […] ».
- Julien Clerc interpreted a chanson entitled Place Clichy in his album Double Enfance (2005) , which he composed and the text of which comes from Gérard Duguet-Grasser.
- The novel Voyage au bout de la nuit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline opens on the Place de Clichy with Ferdinand Bardamu's spontaneous decision to join the army.
- Many scenes in the film They Kissed and They Beat him by François Truffaut playing near the square.
- In the novel Silent Days in Clichy, Henry Miller evokes his life around the Place de Clichy on the Wepler .
- The novel A Man Who Sleeps by Georges Perec ends on Place de Clichy.
- The Paris rappers Sexion d'Assaut often refer to the square in their lectures; one member of the group grew up there.
- Scenes from the novel Oussama by Norman Spinrad play on the Place Clichy.
- Place Clichy in painting
Place Clichy by Édouard Manet
Place Clichy by Paul Signac
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Le monument de la place de Clichy at histoires-de-paris.fr., Accessed on February 6, 2020
- ^ Pierre Bonnard: La Place Clichy
- ↑ Archives: LE FILM DE POLANSKI
- ↑ Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Voyage au bout de la nuit , Romans, tome I , Éditions Gallimard , “La Pléiade” collection, 1981, ISBN 2-07-011000-1