Boulevard de Magenta
place de la République | |
| To | boulevard de la Chapelle |
|---|---|
| Construction | |
| Completion | 1855 and 1859 |
| Denomination | 1855 |
The boulevard de Magenta is located in the
.It begins at
boulevard de Rochechouart and 53, boulevard de la Chapelle
.
immeuble de rapport
on the boulevard de MagentaEtymology
It is named after the
Napoléon III over the Austrians
under Guylay.
History
The creation of the boulevard de Magenta was part of the
boulevard de Rochechouart (the boulevard here in fact follows the route of the old rue du Nord which formed a part of an 1827 subdivision) and in 1859 between place de la République
and rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin.
Stations
Métro
- République
- Jacques-Bonsergent
- Barbès - Rochechouart
RER station
The RER station
Magenta is located to the east of the gare du Nord and named after this boulevard, even if it is not truly under it. It is served by RER line E
.
Monuments
- n° 3 : Here lived German occupation of France, on 23 December 1940.
- n° 24 : Site of the restaurant Véry, where the anarchist Ravachol was arrested on 30 March 1892. In revenge, the anarchists exploded a bomb here on the morning of 25 April that year.
- n° 68 : Église Saint-Laurent, built between 1863 and 1867.
- n° 85 bis : Marché Saint-Quentin installed here in 1866.
- n° 110 : Here lived the painter Georges Seurat.
- n° 170 : The Le Louxor cinema (façades and ceilings inscribed as a Monument historique), an Egyptian looking monument built by architect Henri-André Zipcy in 1921.[1]
References
- ^ "Paris cinema". Paris Digest. 2018. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
Sources
- Jacques Hillairet, Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris, Minuit, Paris, 1963 (ISBN 2-7073-1054-9)
External links
Media related to Boulevard de Magenta (Paris) at Wikimedia Commons
