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Rue Bailleul - Robet Bailleul, accounts clerk who lived on the street [5] Allée Baltard - Victor Baltard (1805-1874), architect; Rue Basse - named due to its proximity to Place Basse; Passage de Beaujolais - named due to its proximity to the Rue de Beaujolais [6] Rue de Beaujolais - comte de Beaujolais, a title given to sons of the Duke of ...
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 October 1 ...
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The street was one of the centres of the June Rebellion of 1832, immortalised in Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables, and which is referred to in the book as the "Epic of the Rue Saint-Denis". [1] The street contains clothes shops, bars and restaurants, the church of Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles , a bank, and the Chambre des notaires building.
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The Rue du Commerce, which was the main shopping street of the former commune of Grenelle, was formed in 1837 under the name of Rue Saint-Guillaume. Classified in the Parisian road system under the decree of May 23, 1863, it took the name of Rue de la Montagne-Noire on February 1, 1877 before taking its current name by an order of March 16, 1877.
The Rue de Vaugirard (French pronunciation: [ʁy d(ə) voʒiʁaʁ]; English: Street of Vaugirard) is the longest street inside Paris's former city walls, at 4.3 km (2.7 mi). It spans the 6th and 15th arrondissements. The Senate, housed in the Palais du Luxembourg, is at 15 Rue de Vaugirard.
Formerly lying along the cardo of Roman Lutetia, this street was a main axial road of medieval Paris, as the buildings that still front it attest.It is the historic starting point, at no. 252, the Église Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, for pilgrims leaving Paris to make their way along the Chemin de Saint-Jacques that led eventually to Santiago de Compostela (James, Jacques, Jacob, and Iago being ...