Rue de Siam (Paris)
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ' N , 2 ° 16' E
| Rue de Siam (Paris) | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 16. |
| quarter | Muette |
| Beginning | 1, rue Edmond-About |
| The End | 43, rue de la Pompe |
| morphology | |
| length | 165 m |
| width | 12 m |
| history | |
| Emergence | 1884 |
| designation | 1886 |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 8590 |
The Rue de Siam is a 165 meter long and 12 meter wide road in the district Muette the 16th arrondissement of Paris .
location
It starts at numbers 1 on Rue Edmond About or 15 on Rue Mignard and leads as a one-way street to number 43 on Rue de la Pompe .
Name origin
The street got the name because the former embassy of Siam (now Thailand ) resided here from 1884 to 1939.
history
The street was opened in 1884 and the same year the Thai embassy in France moved here . On this occasion, the street was given its name, which is still valid today, although the embassy itself had already left Rue de Siam in 1939 and now resides in the neighboring Porte Dauphine district at number 8 on Rue Greuze .
Attractions
Around 1900 the English writer George Gissing (1857-1903) lived in house number 13 on this street.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Many French cities have a Rue de Siam : "INSOLITE 18 - LES" RUES DE SIAM "EN FRANCE ET AILLEURS" (French)
- ^ Philippe Siguret, Bertrand Lemoine : Vie et histoire du XIVe arrondissement (Edition Hervas, Paris 1991), p. 147
- ↑ Ambassade Royale de Thaïlande en France (French)