Boulevard de Magenta

The Parisian boulevard de Magenta, with its 1920 meters long, crosses the border between the 9th and 10th arrondissement. It begins at the Place de la République / corner of rue Beaurepaire and ends at the Boulevard de Rochechouart / corner of Boulevard de la Chapelle. It runs approximately north- western direction. After about 1400 meters, crossing the Rue La Fayette, where at the same time also runs the county line. The extension of the road to the Boulevard de Rochechouart to the north is the Boulevard Barbès further.

The street is named after the Battle of Magenta in Lombardy in 1859. In the same year it was completed. In the planning phase and during construction it was still called Rue du Nord.

Immediately at the Paris Gare du Nord is located which opened in July 1999, the S-Bahn station RER E, although bears the name of Magenta station, but not directly under the boulevard, but more than 300 meters away.

In 1980 the road was declared despite its width of 30 meters to ax rouge to reduce emissions from road transport. Since then available for individual motorized transport only one lane in each direction.

Significant places

Along the road remember some attached to the facades of marble plaques on events at the respective locations:

  • No. 3: Here lived Jacques Bonsergent, the first Parisian, who was shot at the German occupation of Paris in December 1940
  • No 10: Here the architect Paul Sédille lived († 1900), and particularly on the redesign of the department store Printemps has become famous
  • No 11: The house from 1887 is the work of architect Louis Gauché. The monumental allegorical figures on the facade symbolize modern science
  • No 24: the scene from the restaurant Véry where the anarchist François Claudius Koënigstein alias Ravachol was arrested on 30 March 1892. When revenge is committed comrades in the morning of April 25, a bomb here
  • No. 68: Parish Church of Saint -Laurent, built 1863-1867
  • No. 85 to: Markthalle Marché Saint- Quentin in 1866
  • No. 100: here regularly met the fathers of the "roman national" Alexandre Chatrian and Émile Erckmann to together under the pseudonym Erckmann - Chatrian (La Taverne du jambon de Mayence ) to write. The proximity to the Gare de Paris -Est allowed them to regularly communicate with Lorraine
  • No. 110: Here the painter Georges Seurat lived
  • No. 155: Here the painter Luigi Loir lived
  • No. 170: The Cinema Le Luxor (facade and ceiling are under monument protection)
9th arrondissement of Paris 10th arrondissement of Paris Magenta (Paris RER)
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