Rue Duret

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Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '  N , 2 ° 17'  E

Rue Duret
location
Arrondissement 16.
quarter Chaillot
Beginning 48, Avenue Foch
The End 61bis, Place du Général-Patton
morphology
length 310 m
width 12 m
history
designation August 10, 1868
Original names Route départementale 10
Rue de la Pompe
Coding
Paris 3069

The Rue Duret is a 310 meter long and 12 meter wide street in the Quartier de Chaillot in the 16th arrondissement .

The street starts at number 48, avenue Foch and ends at number 61 to Place du Général Patton .

Name origin

Portrait of Francisque Duret

Before the street was given its current name in 1868 in honor of the sculptor Francisque Joseph Duret (1804-1865), it was part of the Rue de la Pompe, which now only runs south of Avenue Foch .

history

After the parish of Passy was incorporated into Paris, this road became Route départementale 10. On May 23, 1863, it was officially incorporated into the Paris road system as part of the Rue de la Pompe and became "independent" on August 1, 1868 under its current name .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Engraving by M. La Guillermie based on a drawing by Pierre Auguste Cot