Rue La Fayette (Paris)
| Rue La Fayette | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 9th , 10th |
| quarter | Chaussée-d'Antin Faubourg-Montmartre Rochechouart Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Porte-Saint-Denis Hôpital-Saint-Louis |
| Beginning | 38, Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin 36bis, Boulevard Haussmann |
| The End | 1, Place de la Bataille-de-Stalingrad 205, Quai de Valmy |
| morphology | |
| length | 2830 m |
| width | 20 m |
| history | |
| designation | Ministerial Decree of August 28, 1849 |
| Original names | Rue Charles-X |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 5159 |
Rue La Fayette is the name of a street in Paris on the border between the 9th and 10th arrondissement between Boulevard Haussmann at the level of the Paris Opera and Canal Saint-Martin ( Place de la Bastille ).
location
It is 2800 meters long, today in its western part is laid out as a one-way street out of town and runs absolutely straight in an approximately northeast direction. After about 1500 meters the Boulevard de Magenta crosses , a little later you have the Gare de l'Est on your right and the Gare du Nord on your left. The street is very busy with many restaurants and bars. The main attraction is the Galeries Lafayette department store on the corner of Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin and Boulevard Haussmann .
The metro line 7 practically follow the road, holding (together with other lines) at the following locations:
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Chaussée d'Antin - La Fayette
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Le Peletier
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Cadet
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Poissonnière
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Magenta train station
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Louis Blanc
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Jaurès
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Stalingrad
There are also bus stops of the RATP 26, 42, 43, 48, 54.
Name origin
The street bears the name of the Marquis de La Fayette (1757-1834), the hero of the American War of Independence .
Commemorative plaque on house No. 1 for the establishment of the municipal fire brigade
history
The road was opened to traffic in 1823. It is named in honor of General Marie-Joseph Motier, Marquis de La Fayette , who helped implement the American idea of freedom in the French Revolution for France. In 1862 it was extended to this point in the course of the rebuilding of Boulevard Haussmann.
Below the street level is metro line 7 , opened in 1910 , which, coming from Opéra , turns to the east at Poissonnière station and curves around the east station to follow the street from Louis Blanc station to its end.
In the 1980s, despite its width of 30 meters, the street was declared a one-way street to make road traffic safer. Since then, two lanes have been available for motorized private transport.
Attractions
- Galeries Lafayette : The main store of the large French department store chain is on the corner of Boulevard Haussmann .
- No. 1: In July 1810 , the Austrian Field Marshal Karl Philipp zu Schwarzenberg gave a reception in the Hôtel de Montesson in honor of Napoleon's marriage to Marie-Louise of Austria . That evening, the establishment of a municipal, military-style fire brigade was also announced.
- Nos. 24–26: Exhibition rooms with instruments by the organ builder Alexandre-François Debain in his first workshop.
- at No. 31–33: the extremely luxurious Hôtel de Thellusson on the then Rue de Provence No. 30 was demolished in 1824 as part of the road expansion.
- No. 49: The Norwegian painter Edvard Munch painted his painting Rue Lafayette from a balcony of this hotel .
- No. 56: An attempted assassination attempt on a German military convoy by the resistance group FTP-MOI in November 1943 failed: three important figures ( Rino Della Negra , Robert Witchitz and Cesare Luccarini ) are injured or arrested.
- The Square Montholon is the only Green Island in the street.
- No. 61: Place of publication of the Le Petit Journal newspaper , which appeared between 1863 and 1944 .
- No. 81: Headquarters of the harmonium maker Alexandre Père et Fils from 1843 to 1955
- No. 91: The facade shows a pair of caryatids by Jules Dalou
- No. 106: Kurdish Institute in Paris
- No. 145: Mock building of the RATP railway company to hide the ventilation shafts of the underground track that crosses here ( ⊙ ).
- The reinforced concrete bridge Pont La Fayette by Albert Caquot spans the apron of the Gare de l'Est with a length of 150 meters ; Width 20 meters. The current building is from 1927/28.
- No. 214: The Church of St-Joseph-Artisan was built as the Saint-Joseph-des-Allemands chapel by German immigrants at the beginning of the 19th century
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 41 ″ N , 2 ° 21 ′ 6 ″ E