Boulevard Auguste-Blanqui

The boulevard Auguste-Blanqui is a boulevard of the 13 {{E}} district of Paris. It belongs to the axis which connects the Place of Italy to the Place Denfert-Rochereau.

Length 1040 approximately 70 meters meters and broad, it leaves the place of Italy and goes to the street of Health, with the limit of the 14 {{E}} district, where it is prolonged by the Boulevard Saint-Jacob. It crosses the old valley of the Bièvre.

The boulevard owes its name to the thinker and revolutionary socialist French Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881).

History

The boulevard occupies the site of old the Mur of the Farmers general. It has its current aspect since the extension of Paris and the destruction of this wall in the years 1860. Previously, two boulevards skirted the wall:

outside boulevard of Italy between place of Italy and Street of Refrigerator,

but boulevard of Refrigerator beyond street of Refrigerator,

inside boulevard of Goblins between place of Italy and street of Refrigerator, that one should not confuse with current the Avenue Goblins which also leaves it the place of Italy,

but boulevard Saint-Jacob beyond the street of the Refrigerator.

Characteristics

the central reservation of the boulevard is currently overhung on the major part of its course by the elevated railway of the line 6. It shelters in particular a ground of tennis shoe on the level of the crossing with the street of the Refrigerator as well as a bowling pitch on the level of the subway station Corvisart.

Near to the place of Italy, is a stele “With the children of XIIIe arrt died for France”.

A little further, a bandstand.

With the crossroads with the Rue Abel-Hovelacque is the school Estienne, traditional name of the University of arts and graphic industries.

On the frontage of the n° 25, a commemorative plaque recalls that Auguste Blanqui lived in this house of 1878 until its death in 1881.

With the crossroads of the Rue Corvisart is the church Holy-Rosalie, thus named in the honor of the Sœur Rosalie, that one even which gave its name to the short avenue giving place of Italy, and which was years lasting with the service of the small people of the district, in first half of XIXesiècle.

In front of the halt-nursery of the n° 69, a bust of Ernest Rousselle (1836-1896), president of the General advice of the Seine, known for its action in favor of childhood, takes care on an abandoned child.

Since 2006, the daily newspaper Le Monde has its seat with number 80.

See too

List of the streets of Paris
District of the White House
Croulebarbe (Parisian district)
Hillock with the Ruails (Parisian district)

External bond

Extracts from the official nomenclature of the ways of Paris

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