Quarters of the Batignolles
Les Batignolles , formerly an independent rural municipality in the north of Paris , has been the 67th of the city's 80 quarters since 1860 and belongs to the 17th arrondissement .
location
The district is bounded to the south by the Boulevard des Batignolles , to the southwest by the Rue de Levis and the Rue de Tocqueville , to the north by the Boulevard Périphérique , and to the east by the Rue Lemercier , the Rue de la Condamine and the Avenue de Clichy .
The former village ended in the northwest at what is now Rue Cardinet , but in the east it reached beyond the Boulevard de Clichy far beyond the boundaries of today's quarter and far into the current 18th arrondissement . It encompassed almost the entire area currently known as "Les Epinettes", with the exception of the area north of what is now Rue Ernest Roche , and extended to the east into the 18th arrondissement . There the former route départementale n ° 36 (today Rue Marcadet ) and the gypsum mines, over which the Cimetière de Montmartre was built in 1825 , formed the border to the municipality of Montmartre .
history
The meaning of the name Batignolles is unclear. The name is probably derived from the Latin batillus , the mill. The origin could also come from Provencal , where bastidiole means something like small country house . Around 1830, the municipality, together with neighboring Monceau, had no more than 3,500 inhabitants. The until then administered from Clichy from Les Batignolles was by a decree of Napoléon III. incorporated into Paris on January 1, 1860. In the second half of the 19th century, numerous artists settled in the Quartier des Batignolles. These included the writer Stéphane Mallarmé and the painter Édouard Manet . A well-known meeting point for artists at that time was the Café Guerbois at 9 avenue Clichy and the artists who met there were also known as the Groupe des Batignolles . Henri Fantin-Latour called his group portrait with Manet and his artist friends Un atelier aux Batignolles (1870).
Attractions
In the center of the Quartier des Batignolles is the church of Sainte-Marie des Batignolles , which is at the northern end of the Rue des Batignolles . The Square des Batignolles is located directly behind the church . The huge skyscraper of the New Palace of Justice is being built near the city motorway .
Sons and daughters of Les Batignolles
- Barbara (1930–1997), chanson singer
Web links
- Homepage of the 17th arrondissement of Paris (French)
- The artist group Groupe des Batignolles at artlex (English)
Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 15 ″ N , 2 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ E