Boulevard Richard-Lenoir

Boulevard Richard-Lenoir
Boulevard Richard-Lenoir
Boulevard Richard-Lenoir is located in Paris
Boulevard Richard-Lenoir
Shown within Paris
Arrondissement11th
QuarterBastille
Coordinates48°51′36″N 2°22′19″E / 48.8599°N 2.3719°E / 48.8599; 2.3719
FromBastille
ToAvenue de la République

The Boulevard Richard-Lenoir (French pronunciation: [bulvaʁ ʁiʃaʁ lənwaʁ]), running from the Bastille to the Avenue de la République, is one of the wide tree-lined boulevards driven through Paris by Baron Haussmann during the Second French Empire of Napoleon III.

The boulevard is named after François Richard-Lenoir [fr] (1765-1839) and Joseph Lenoir-Dufresne [fr] (1768-1806), business-partner industrialists who brought the cotton industry to Paris and northern France in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It is the site of a weekly art market and of a bi-weekly fruit and vegetable market that is one of the largest in Paris.

  • Boulevard Richard-Lenoir plaque
    Boulevard Richard-Lenoir plaque
  • Boulevard Richard-Lenoir in 1981
    Boulevard Richard-Lenoir in 1981
  • A building at the Boulevard Richard Lenoir (numbers 53-55) in Paris in 1981. Unknown architect
    A building at the Boulevard Richard Lenoir (numbers 53-55) in Paris in 1981. Unknown architect

Fictional

Georges Simenon's famous detective Jules Maigret is portrayed as living at 132 Boulevard Richard-Lenoir.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ Georges Simenon (1948) Maigret et son mort, Presses de la Cité.