Boulevard Haussmann

The boulevard Haussmann is a boulevard of Paris which connects the crossroads of the Boulevard of the Italians and of the Boulevard Montmartre with the Avenue of Friedland.

2530 meters length, the Haussmann boulevard crosses all the 9 {{E}} and the 8 {{E}} districts. It leaves the district in which one finds the principal seats of banks and goes along the department stores with which one often associates his name today. The continuation of its course crosses more residential districts but always cossus.

History

Within the framework of the transformation of Paris, the prefect Haussmann designed this axis of great circulation like a diagonal way connecting the first circle of the Grands Boulevards to that of the Mur of the Farmers general. He had, for that, to order the destruction of the house in which he had been born, with the angle of the Rue of the Suburb-Saint-Honore.

Like its predecessor Rambuteau, Haussmann saw its activity rewarded as of its alive by attribution for its name to the one for the principal ways of which it had ordered boring. The boulevard was however completed only well after its death. It is only into 1926 that the Haussmann boulevard, after eighty years of work, finally joined the boulevard of the Italians, making disappear the passage from the Opera where two years before strolled the Paysan of Paris of Aragon.

Opening of the ways

Section a: of the Street Drouot and the Boulevard of the Italians until the Street Laffitte, decree of January 12th, 1922, open in 1926
Section b: of the street Laffitte until the Street Taitbout and the Place Adrien Oudin, decree of July 24th, 1913, open in 1926
Section C: street Taitbout and the place Adrien Oudin, until Street Fayette and the Street of the Roadway of Antin, decree of February 22nd, 1868
Section D: between the street of the Chaussee Of antin and the Street of Le Havre, decree of December 27th, 1865
Section E: between the street of Le Havre and the Street of Miromesnil, decree of July 16th, 1862
Section F: between of Miromesnil and the Street of the Suburb Saint-Honore, decree of October 17th, 1857

The sections E and F faisient in the past parts of the Boulevard Beaujon.

Monuments and places

Museum Jacquemart-Andre (158 and 158 (a))

Large banks

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