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The street is named for the Cardinal de Richelieu, chief minister of King Louis XIII from 1624 to 1642. The street was originally called the Rue Royale and then Rue de Richelieu soon after. The name was changed to the Rue de la Loi during the French Revolution; its name was restored to Richelieu in 1806. [citation needed]
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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.
It occupies a special place in the history of Paris, because it is the first street to pierce the medieval centre, during the reign of King Louis Philippe I, a few years before the great works of Baron Haussmann. The Rue Rambuteau has a length of 975 metres (3,199 ft) and a width of 13 metres (43 ft).
The street, which is 1,150 m long, begins at the junction of the quais Voltaire and Anatole-France and ends at the Rue de Sèvres. Rue du Bac is also a station on line 12 of the Paris Métro , although its entrance is actually located on the Boulevard Raspail at the point where it is joined by the Rue du Bac.
The Boulevard Périphérique (French pronunciation: [bulvaʁ peʁifeʁik]), often called the Périph, is a limited-access dual-carriageway ring road in Paris, France. With a few exceptions (see Structure and Layout), it is situated along Paris's administrative limit. The speed limit along the Périphérique is 50 km/h (31 mph) as of 1 October 2024.
Western Normandy belongs to the Armorican Massif, while most of the region lies in the Paris Basin. France's oldest rocks are exposed in Jobourg, on the Cotentin peninsula. [13] The region is bounded to the north and west by the English Channel. There are granite cliffs in the west and limestone cliffs in the east.
The Rue Saint-Lazare (French pronunciation: [ʁy sɛ̃ lazaʁ]) is a street in the 8th and 9th arrondissements of Paris, France.It starts at 9 Rue Bourdaloue and 1 Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, and ends at the Place Gabriel-Péri and the Rue de Rome.