Boulevards of the Marshals

The boulevards of the Marshals are a continuous whole of boulevards who girdle Paris, in extreme cases of the city. This collective name rises owing to the fact that the near total of these boulevards bear names of marshals of the First Empire.

Geography

The boulevards of the Marshals form an almost continuous ribbon which makes the turn of Paris. Doubling the Ring road interior side at a distance of 150 meters on average, the boulevards of the Marshals do not form like him an expressway, but an ordinary way. They thus comprise, except exception (some uneven undergrounds resembling exchangers), intersections on level and their speed is limited to 50  km/h.

The boulevards connect different the Portes from Paris and in the south and the east from the city are bordered by the Ligne of Small Belt, old unused railway line. The space ranging between the boulevards of the Marshals and the ring road, recovered on old the glacis of the pregnant of Thiers, form a band urbanistiquement different from the remainder of the capital: one finds there a big number of multifamily apartments of type HBM out of typical red bricks, educational establishments, gymnasia and stages, and even some green areas, as well as the international University residence.

Installations

Separate ways of bus of the normal ways as well as a cycle track on the pavement were arranged.

The Ligne 3 of the Parisian tram follows the boulevards of the southern Marshals.

History

The boulevards of the Marshals occupy the site of the old Militaire road which skirted the pregnant military of Thiers, built in 1840. The extension of Paris in 1860 per annexation of the bordering communes extended the capital precisely to this enclosure, which with its broad Glacis marked a deep rupture in urban fabric. In the Years 1920, the dismantling of the enclosure made it possible to create a whole of boulevards making it tower of the city, in the same manner as the destruction of the enclosure of Louis XIII had given birth, at the end of the 17th century, with the grand boulevards of Right Bank.

List boulevards of the Marshals

See the Liste of the boulevards of the Marshals and doors of Paris.

Particular sites

Some particular sites near the boulevards of the Marshals:

See too

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