Boulevard Richard-Lenoir
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Arrondissement | 11th |
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Quarter | Bastille |
Coordinates | 48°51′36″N 2°22′19″E / 48.8599°N 2.3719°E |
From | Bastille |
To | Avenue de la République |
Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, running from the Bastille to the Avenue de la République, is one of the wide tree-lined boulevards driven through Paris by Baron Haussmann during the Second French Empire of Napoleon III.
The Boulevard is named after François Richard and Joseph Lenoir-Dufresne, industrialists who brought the cotton industry to Paris in the 18th and 19th century. It is the site of a weekly art market and of a bi-weekly fruit and vegetable market that is one of the largest in Paris.
Fictional[edit]
Georges Simenon's famous detective Jules Maigret is portrayed as living at 132 Boulevard Richard-Lenoir.[1]
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References[edit]
- ^ Georges Simenon (1948) Maigret et son mort, Presses de la Cité.