Rue de Boigne
The Rue de Boigne is a commercial street in the center of Chambery in eastern France Savoie department . It leads from the Château des Ducs de Savoie across the old town to the elephant fountain, where the city wall was when the road was laid in 1824. It crosses Place Saint-Léger , which was created 50 years earlier as an urban center.
This road was suggested and financed by Benoît de Boigne (1751-1830), who had made wealth in India and bequeathed it to his native city on his return. The street went straight through the existing buildings in the old town, which was felt to be too narrow and unhygienic. If the establishment of the Place Saint-Léger was still in the spirit of the Enlightenment , the Rue de Boigne followed the idea of Georges-Eugène Haussmann , who is considered the city planner of Paris in the second half of the 19th century. Many large cities followed this example and the term Haussmannization was coined for it .
The demolition of the old, dilapidated and small-scale structure began in 1824. Boigne had previously made his financing commitment, just as he had already given the population a retirement home and the theater. The course of the street went from the castle, built between the 11th and 15th centuries, in a straight line to the city wall opposite the city, with the main square, Place Saint-Léger , being crossed at right angles. Under the sign of the late Baroque, town villas in Italian style were built on both sides of the street for wealthy, middle-class families who had earned their fortune from trade and finance. The houses were given arcades , behind which shops and coffee houses were built. The original center with its elongated square was expanded with this new street. It quickly found a high level of acceptance among the population. The end of the street is closed by the elephant fountain, which is reminiscent of the exotic activities of Boigne. On the central column of the fountain, Boigne is remembered with a larger than life bronze statue in a heroic pose.
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- ↑ Sharon Marcus: Haussmannization as Anti-modernity, the Apartment House in Parisian Urban Discourse, 1850-1880 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in Journal of Urban History, vol. 27 n. 6, University of California, Berkeley, September 2001. pp. 723-745
- ↑ La rue de Boigne, Chambery. Forme villes et territoires. Réseau national est animé par le ministère de la culture direction générale des patrimoines.
Coordinates: 45 ° 33 '55.9 " N , 5 ° 55' 15.3" E