Place de Clichy

The Place de Clichy (French, dtsch Clichy Square, French also briefly Place Clichy called ) is a square in the north-west of Paris.

The streets from the Boulevard périphérique (Porte de Saint -Ouen and Porte de Clichy ) intersect at the busy square in the city center and the Place Charles de Gaulle in Pigalle district. Under the square, the metro lines 2 and 13 intersect in the Place de Clichy metro station.

The Place de Clichy is the only place in Paris, meet at the four arrondissements: the 8, 9, 17 and 18th arrondissement. Located near the Place Pigalle, the cemetery of Montmartre and the Saint-Lazare station lie.

The Place de Clichy arose after the French Revolution at the former city limits between Paris and Clichy. Until 1788 was the place where is now the place still belongs to the municipality of Clichy. On March 30, 1814 Bon -Adrien Jeannot de - Moncey defended at Place de Clichy Paris without success against Russian forces who attacked during the war of liberation. Today, his six meters high, created by Amédée Doublemard monument stands on an eight meter high pedestal on the center of the square.

A special feature of the Place de Clichy is that this was not planned urban development, so that the facades of the square in contrast to many other Parisian places do not provide homogeneous overall impression.

48.8831746666672.3272991666667Koordinaten: 48 ° 52 ' 59 " N, 2 ° 19' 38" E

• Place in Paris
• Place in Europe