Rue d'Auteuil
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ' N , 2 ° 16' E
| Rue d'Auteuil | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 16. |
| quarter | Auteuil |
| Beginning | Rue Verderet |
| The End | Boulevard Murat |
| morphology | |
| length | 732 m |
| width | 20 m |
| history | |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 0567 |
The 732 meters long and 20 meters wide Rue d'Auteuil , then still Grande rue d'Auteuil , was the most important street in the old village of Auteuil , which has been one of four quarters in the 16th arrondissement since it was incorporated into Paris .
location
The street begins at number 1, Boulevards Murat, and leads as a one-way street to Avenue Théophile Gautier , where it ends at the forecourt of Notre-Dame d'Auteuil , which dominates the district .
Below the street are three metro stations on line 10 : Église d'Auteuil and Porte d'Auteuil as well as the Michel-Ange - Auteuil in between , which is also served by line 9 .
The entrance to the Église d'Auteuil metro station designed by Guimard is one of the cultural monuments of the 16th arrondissement .
There are two Vélib ' stations in the street : one at the beginning and one at the end of the street; another can be found at the beginning of Rue Jean de La Fontaine .
Name origin
The street was the main street in the formerly independent town of Auteuil.
history
Auteuil was an independent municipality until 1860, founded around 600 as a hamlet in the forest of Rouvray (the Bois de Boulogne is still left of it.).
Today it is the heart of the Quartier d'Auteuil
Attractions
- No. 2: A plaque informs about the fact that the French playwright Molière lived here around 1677 .
- No. 4: Chapelle Sainte-Bernadette
- No. 11: Entrance to the Lycée Jean-Baptiste-Say , a cultural monument .
- No. 12: A plaque reminds us that the Breton sculptor Pierre Lenoir (1879–1953) lived here.
- No. 16: Hôtel Véron
- No. 40: Auberge du Mouton Blanc ( German Gasthaus zum Weißen Schaf ), which housed Molière , Jean Racine and Jean de La Fontaine , among others .
- Nos. 43 to 47: This is where the Hôtel Antier stood in the 18th century , also known as the Hôtel des Demoiselles de Verrières , which was built in the 1710s for the opera singer Mademoiselle Antier (1687–1747). In the years 1784/85 the house was inhabited by the Adams family and thus accommodated two future US presidents : John Adams (second US president from 1797 to 1801), who was the American ambassador to France at the time , and his son John Quincy Adams (sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829).
- No. 59: The property was acquired by Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte in 1854 . The house was later set on fire by his political opponents. Today there is an apartment block in its place.
- No. 73: Embassy of Cameroon in France
- No. 75: In 1869 Charles Tellier created an industrial plant in Auteuil for the preservation of meat and food using artificial cold. A plaque honors him.
- No. 78: Gare d'Auteuil-Boulogne on the former Petite Ceinture line
Memorial plaque on house no.2
Chapelle Sainte-Bernadette
The entrance to the Église d'Auteuil metro station designed by Hector Guimard
Lycée Jean-Baptiste-Say
Hotel Véron
Memorial plaque at number 75
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Philippe Siguret, Bertrand Lemoine : Vie et histoire du XIVe arrondissement (Edition Hervas, Paris 1991), p. 26
- ↑ Philippe Siguret, Bertrand Lemoine : Vie et histoire du XIVe arrondissement (Edition Hervas, Paris 1991), p. 27
- ↑ Les PARIS d'Alain Rustenholz (French)
- ↑ 59, rue d'Auteuil (French)