Avenue Kléber

The Avenue Kléber is a street in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The 1,135 -meter long and 36 meter wide road runs from the Place Charles de Gaulle with the Arc de Triomphe to the Place du Trocadéro.

History

The street named after her in honor of General Jean- Baptiste Kléber (1753-1800), who was Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) used for the commander in chief of Egypt, in the capital, Cairo, he was assassinated on June 14, 1800. Before the road was given its present name by a decree with effect from August 16, 1879, she Avenue du Roi de Rome said. With this designation Napoléon II (1811-1832) was honored, who had already been appointed by his father shortly after his birth to the " King of Rome ".

Metroanbindung

Directly under the Avenue Kléber the Métro line 6 runs with two stations at the beginning ( Charles de Gaulle - Étoile ) and end ( Trocadéro ) of the road and two stations directly under the same Kléber and Boissiere.

The Hotel Majestic

The Russian collector Alexander Basilewski was build in 1864 on the site of today's number 19 is a luxurious house, the first of the name Hôtel Basilewski (House Basilewski ) wore. After the Spanish Queen Isabella II (1830-1904) had been deposed in September 1868, she fled to France and bought the house, which was henceforth called Palais de Castille (Palace of Castile ). On June 25, 1870 officially renounced the crown in favor of her son Alfonso XII. (1857-1885), who after re-establishment of the monarchy in 1875 ascended the throne. Then Isabella returned to Spain and lived partly there and partly in Paris, where she died on April 9, 1904.

The house was torn down two years later (1906 ) and in its place, the Hôtel Majestic was (Hotel Majestic ); a luxury accommodation, which is now in the neighboring Rue Dumont d' Urville. During the German occupation of France (1940-1944) here was the headquarters of the Military Commander France (MBF ) and its central departments. The MBF was next to the hotel build a bunker; this was demolished after the war. After the Second World War, the Hôtel Majestic then served since September 16, 1946 as the headquarters of UNESCO. This pulled in late summer 1958 in its new headquarters on the Place de Fontenoy 'around. From 1958 to 1960, the building of the French architect Jacques Carlu was rebuilt by order of the French Foreign Ministry to the international conference center. Since purchasing the property in April 2008 by Quatari Diar, the building is a luxury hotel again.

The other Hotel Majestic

The plot of his novel Maigret and the basement of the " Majestic " makes the success Belgian author Georges Simenon (1903-1989), who wrote 75 Maigret novels, playing in a Hotel Majestic in Paris, but not identical with the actually existing hotel is in the Avenue Kléber. His hotel was located on the Avenue des Champs- Élysées - another Parisian boulevard, which is also connected to the Place Charles de Gaulle and (viewed from there ) 90 degrees to the left from the beginning of the Avenue Kléber is - and was in fact the Hotel Claridge ( under the local number 74).

Hotel Raphael

In point 17, the Hotel Raphael, one of the Leading Hotels of the World and was awarded in the category of luxury hotels in January 2008 with the Best Recognition Award for the world's third best hotel. That same month his bar was named the Prix Villegiature Best Hotel Bar in Europe.

Due to these salient features, it is no surprise that the Hotel Raphael has always been a popular place for celebrities from show business. Thus lived the end of the 1950s, the Hollywood stars Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift during the filming of the movie The Young Lions as the Hotel Raphael as the pair Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman and the French actress Leslie Caron.

Other notable addresses

In the house number 71 of the French composer Henri Busser lived ( 1872-1973 ). Also located in this street the embassies of Iceland ( number 8) and Peru ( number 50).