Boulevard Haussmann in Paris
Friday, 6 October 2017 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union General , Paris / Île-de-France , Shopping
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Boulevard Haussmann – Street sign © flickr.com – Sergio Calleja/cc-by-sa-2.0
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Boulevard Haussmann, 2.53 kilometres (1.57 mi) long between the crossings of
Boulevard des Italiens /
Boulevard Montmartre and
Rue de Monceau /
Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré from the
8th to the
9th arrondissement , is one of the wide tree-lined boulevards created in
Paris by
Napoleon III , under the direction of his Prefect of the Seine,
Baron Haussmann . The Boulevard Haussmann is mostly lined with apartment blocks, whose regulated cornice height gives a pleasing eyeline to the Boulevard. The
department stores Galeries Lafayette and
Au Printemps are sited on this street.
From 1906 to 1919, the novelist Marcel Proust (1871–1922) lived at No. 102. There, in his cork-lined bedroom (now on display in the Carnavalet Museum ), he wrote the major part of À la recherche du temps perdu . Alan Bates starred in 102 Boulevard Haussmann , a 1990 play written by Alan Bennett .
Les Printemps shopping center on Boulevard Haussmann © panoramio:com - jeffwarder/cc-by-sa-3.0
At 158 there is the
Musée Jacquemart-André . The
Impressionist and patron of other artists
Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) painted the Boulevard in many different lights as the days and seasons changed.
Marks & Spencer , the British department store chain, opened a store on Boulevard Haussmann in 1975 when it opened its first overseas stores. In the
Ian Fleming novel
James Bond: Thunderball , it is described as “the solidest street in Paris” and the site of the headquarters of
SPECTRE .
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parisinfo.com – Haussmann-Opéra, the heart of Parisian shopping and
Wikipedia Boulevard Haussmann (
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