Avenue d'Iéna

The Avenue d' Iéna is a 1,140 meters long and 36 meters wide road in the neighborhood of the 16th arrondissement of Paris Chaillot. Rough road connects the two of the most famous monuments of the French capital; it starts at the Avenue Albert de Mun, which runs directly beside the Palais de Chaillot is located directly opposite the Eiffel Tower on the other side of the Seine, and ends at the Place Charles de Gaulle, in the middle of which the Arch is located.

The street was named in memory of Napoleon's victorious battle of 14 October 1806.

Special buildings

Are located on the road as well as situated in its southern section of the Place d' Iéna four cultural monuments of the 16th arrondissement:

Right at the beginning of the road under item 1 of the entire block between Avenue d' Iéna, avenue Albert de Mun and the Avenue du President Wilson engaging and on its northeast side at number 9 of the Place d' Iéna ending Palais d' Iéna. This was built in 1937 by Auguste Perret. It originally served as a transport museum and now houses the Economic Social and Environmental Council of France.

Also on the Place d' Iéna is in point 6, the Guimet Museum Built in 1889, located on the north side of the square and occupies the entire block between Avenue d' Iéna, Rue Boissiere and Rue de Lübeck. Located next door to the east under number 5, another cultural monument.

Furthermore, located in the southernmost section of the road under number 10, the Hôtel du Prince Roland Bonaparte, which was built in the last decade of the 19th century by the architect Ernest Janty and modified in 1929 by Michel Roux- Spitz. In 2005 the building was purchased by the hotel chain Shangri- La and transformed into a luxury hotel, 109 rooms, including 40 suites includes. The hotel was opened in 2010.

Approximately in the geographical center of the road, where they straight branches from its original north-eastern course towards the north, located to the right of point 56, the Hôtel de Trumet Fontarce, which now houses the Egyptian Embassy in France. On the opposite side of the street the spacious Place des États Unis opens to the west with a view of the monument to La Fayette and Washington.

Fiction

The Avenue d' Iéna is also the subject of the 1961 published novel Thunderball (later filmed under the title James Bond 007 - Thunderball ) by Ian Fleming, the author of the inhabitants of the street attributed to not just the best characteristics: richest Not the - the Avenue d ' Iéna Has distinction did - but rich people are not Necessarily solid people and too many of the landlords and tenants in the Avenue d' Iéna have names ending in " escu ", " ovitch ", " ski", and " stone ", and synthesis are sometimes not the endings of respectable names. More -over, the Avenue d' Iéna is almost Entirely residential. The occasional discreet brass plates giving the name of a holding company in Liechtenstein or in the Bahamas or the Canton de Vaud in Switzerland are there for tax purposes only - the cover names for private family fortunes seeking alleviation from the punitive burden of the revenue, or, more Briefly, tax- dodging. (Translation: Not the richest (street ) - as such applies the Avenue d' Iéna - but rich people are not necessarily good people, and too many of their owners and tenants have names that begin with " escu ", " ovitch ", " ski" and end " stone ", and these are sometimes not the endings of honorable name. Moreover, the Avenue d' Iéna almost a pure residential streets. occasional discreet brass plates, which in the name of a holding company from Liechtenstein, the Bahamas or the canton of Vaud Switzerland's wear, are there only for tax reasons - as a cover name for private family wealth, seeking a way to reduce its extremely high tax debts to the State or, in short, commit tax evasion ).