Doors of Paris

Paris being girdled by the Ring road, one calls doors of Paris the road accesses and pedestrians at the city. As Paris knew several successive enclosures during the centuries, one finds traces of old doors of Paris inside the city.

Doors of Paris today

For a correspondence of the doors with the boulevards of the Marshals and the communes bordering, see the synoptic Table of the boulevards of the Marshals and the doors of Paris.

(List of the doors and posterns created during the extension of Paris in 1860 and having left today a trace in its toponymy, sorted clockwise starting from North, starting of the Trunk road 1.)

The North-East

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  • Door of the Vault: trunk road 1, highway A1

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  • Door of Aubervilliers: trunk road 301
  • Door of the Villette: trunk road 2
  • Door of Puppet: trunk road 3
  • Door Chaumont
  • Door Brunet
  • Door of Pre-Saint-Gervais
  • Door of the Lilacs

Is

20 {{E}}

  • Door of the Lilacs
  • Door of Ménilmontant
  • Door of Bagnolet: highway A3
  • Door of Montreuil: trunk road 302

12 {{E}}

  • Door of Vincennes: trunk road 34
  • Yellow Door
  • Door of Saint-Mandé
  • Door of Montempoivre
  • Gilded Door or of Picpus
  • Door of Reuilly
  • Door of Charenton: trunk road 6
  • Door of Bercy: highway A4

South (left bank)

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  • Door of the Station
  • Door of Vitry
  • Door of Ivry
  • Door of Choisy: trunk road 305
  • Door of Italy: trunk road 7
  • Postern of the Poplars

14 {{E}}

  • Door of Gentilly
  • Door of Arcueil
  • Door of Orleans: trunk road 20
  • Door of Montrouge
  • Door of Châtillon
  • Door Didot
  • Door of Vanves

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  • Door Brancion
  • Door of Pleasure
  • Door of the Plain
  • Porte de Versailles
  • Door of Issy
  • Door of Sevres

West

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  • Door of the Point-of-Day
  • Door of Saint-Cloud: trunk road 10
  • Door Molitor
  • Door of Boulogne
  • Door of the Hippodrome
  • Door of Auteuil: highway A13
  • Door of Passy
  • Door of the Dauphine Dumb woman
  • Door
  • Door of the Seine
  • Door of Madrid
  • Door Saint-James
  • Door of Neuilly
  • Door of Fine sands

The North-West

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  • Door Shirt: trunk road 13
  • Door of the Terns
  • Door of Villiers
  • Door of Champerret
  • Door of Courcelles
  • Door of Asnières
  • Door of Clichy
  • Door Pouchet

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  • Door of Saint-Ouen
  • Door of Montmartre
  • Door of Clignancourt: trunk road 14
  • Porte of the Fishmongers

Old doors of Paris

  • Door Saint-Denis on the layout of old the Pregnant of Charles V.
  • Door Saint Martin's day on the layout of old the Pregnant of Charles V.
  • Street of the Ditch-Saint-Bernard
  • Street of the Ditch-Saint-Jacques
  • Street of the Ditch-Saint-Marcel

After the construction of the Wall of the Farmers general in 1785, the doors of Paris bore the name of “barriers” until 1860: barrier of the Villette, barrier of the Throne, barrier of Italy… They were used indeed as barriers of Octroi, materialized by houses built by Ledoux. Some are always visible:

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