Rue Gustave Courbet

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

Rue Gustave Courbet
location
Arrondissement 16.
quarter Porte Dauphine
Beginning 98, rue de Longchamp
The End 128–128 bis, rue de la Pompe
morphology
length 170 m
width 12 m
history
Emergence 1882
designation 1885
Coding
Paris 4361

The Rue Gustave Courbet is a 170 meter long and 12 meter wide street in the Quartier de la Porte Dauphine of the 16th arrondissement of Paris .

location

The street starts at number 98 on rue de Longchamp and ends at number 128 on rue de la Pompe .

Name origin

Gustave Coubert, photo by Nadar

The street, which opened in 1882, is named after the painter Gustave Courbet (1819–1877), who lived in Paris since 1840 before fling to Switzerland in 1873 because of immense claims for damages brought against him by the French government .

history

The street was opened in 1882 by the Compagnie Foncière de France and was given its current name by decree of November 10, 1885, before it was assigned to the public road network of Paris by decree of October 25, 1887.

Individual evidence

  1. Portrait de l'artiste dit Courbet (French)