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Rue Crémieux in 2012. The Rue Crémieux is a one-block pedestrian street in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, originally built as workers' housing.The street has been widely recommended to tourists for its quaint painted housefronts, and has become a popular destination for filming and for social media photos.
The Boulevard de Clichy (French pronunciation: [bulvaʁ də kliʃi]) is a famous street of Paris, which lends its name to the Place de Clichy, resulted from the fusion, in 1864, of the roads that paralleled the Wall of the Farmers-General, both inside and out.
The Rue Foyatier is a street on the Montmartre butte ("outlier"), in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.Opened in 1867, it was given its current name in 1875, after the sculptor Denis Foyatier (1793–1863). [1]
The idea of the boulevard as a centre for leisure asserted itself during the 18th century, when numerous théâtres de la foire set up near the Porte Saint-Martin.The boulevard du Temple became affectionately known as "boulevard du Crime" during Bourbon Restoration, an allusion to the criminal acts portrayed there by stage actors.
La vie quotidienne sous le Second Empire (2009), Armand Colin, Paris (ISBN 2-200-37226-4) Milza, Pierre. Napoleon III (Perrin, 2006), ISBN 978-2-262-02607-3; Pinkney, David H. Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris (Princeton University Press, 1958) Weeks, Willet. The Man Who Made Paris: The Illustrated Biography of Georges-Eugène Haussmann ...
Boulevard Haussmann during Christmas period. 2,530 m long, the Boulevard Haussmann crosses the districts of Madeleine, Quartier de l'Europe, Faubourg-du-Roule, Faubourg-Montmartre and Chaussée-d'Antin located in the 9th and 8th arrondissements of Paris and connects, to the east, the crossroads of Boulevard des Italiens and Boulevard Montmartre, where the metro station is located.
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Boulevard des Capucines is the title of two oil-on-canvas paintings depicting the famous Paris boulevard by French Impressionist artist Claude Monet, created between 1873–1874. One version is vertical in format and depicts a snowy street scene looking down the boulevard towards the Place de l'Opéra. [1]