The 9th arrondissement of Paris (''IX^e arrondissement'') is one of the 20

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of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as the neuvième (; "ninth"). The arrondissement, called Opéra, is located on the right bank of the River Seine. It contains many places of cultural, historical, and architectural interest, including the

Palais Garnier The Palais Garnier (, Garnier Palace), also known as Opéra Garnier (, Garnier Opera), is a 1,979-seatBeauvert 1996, p. 102. opera house at the Place de l'Opéra in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was built for the Paris Opera from ...

, home to the

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, Boulevard Haussmann, and its large department stores Galeries Lafayette and Printemps. The arrondissement has many theaters including Folies Bergères, Théatre Mogador and Théatre de Paris. Along with the

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and

8th 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...

arrondissements, it hosts one of the business centers of Paris, located around the

Opéra This is a glossary list of opera genres, giving alternative names. "Opera" is an Italian word (short for "opera in musica"); it was not at first ''commonly'' used in Italy (or in other countries) to refer to the genre of particular works. Most c ...

Geography

The land area of this arrondissement is 2.179 km² (0.841 sq. miles, or 538 acres).

Main streets and squares

* Place de l'Opéra *

Boulevard des Capucines The Boulevard des Capucines is a boulevard in Paris. It is one of the 'Grands Boulevards' in Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an ...

(partial) *

Boulevard des Italiens The boulevard des Italiens is a boulevard in Paris. It is one of the 'Grands Boulevards' in Paris, a chain of boulevards built through the former course of the Wall of Charles V and the Louis XIII Wall, which were destroyed by the orders of Louis ...

(partial) * Rue des Martyrs (partial) * Boulevard Haussmann (partial) *

Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin This "quartier" of Paris got its name from the rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. It runs north-northwest from the Boulevard des Italiens to the Église de la Sainte-Trinité. In the 17th century the ''chemin des Po ...

Passage du Havre Passage du Havre is one of the covered passages of Paris. Formerly geared towards fish shops and railway modelling (Hornby, La Maison du Train), the arcade was rebuilt in the late 1990s as a modern mall at the time as the construction of Paris' RE ...

* Square Montholon * Boulevard de Clichy (partial) *

Rue La Fayette The rue La Fayette is a street in the 9th district and 10th arrondissement of Paris between the rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin and the rue du Faubourg Poissonnière. History The street was opened in 1823. It was created by Claude Rambuteau and Georg ...

(partial) * Rue de Provence (partial) *

Rue Saint-Lazare The Rue Saint-Lazare is a street in the 8th and 9th arrondissements of Paris, France. It starts at 9 Rue Bourdaloue and 1 Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, and ends at Place Gabriel-Péri and Rue de Rome. History This street already existed in 1700 unde ...

(partial) * Place de Clichy (partial) * Rue de la Victoire * Rue de Caumartin * Rue Laffitte * Place Pigalle

Places of interest

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Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra National de Paris The Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra National de Paris is a library and museum of the Paris Opera and is located in the 9th arrondissement at 8 rue Scribe, Paris, France. It is no longer managed by the Opera, but instead is part of the Music Dep ...

* Paris Olympia * Folies Bergère at 32, rue Richer * Fondation Dosne-Thiers * Hôtel Drouot, auction house * Opera Garnier ("Paris Opera") * Galeries Lafayette (flagship store) at 40, boulevard Haussmann * Printemps department store (flagship store) *

Musée de la Franc-Maçonnerie La Fayette sword. The Musée de la Franc-Maçonnerie (French Museum of Freemasonry) is a museum of Freemasonry located in the 9th arrondissement at 16, rue Cadet, Paris, France. It is open daily except Sundays and Mondays; an admission fee is cha ...

* Musée Grévin * Musée Gustave Moreau at 14, rue de la Rochefoucauld *

Musée du Parfum The Musée du Parfum, also known as the Fragonard Musée du Parfum, is a French private museum of perfume located at 9 rue Scribe, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. History and exhibits Fragonard Parfumeur established the museum in 1983 withi ...

* Musée de la Vie Romantique * Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Paris * Parts of

Pigalle Pigalle may refer to: Places ;Paris, France *Quartier Pigalle, an area in Paris around the Place Pigalle, on the border between the 9th and the 18th arrondissements *Place Pigalle, public square in the Quartier Pigalle at the foot of the Montmartre ...

area * Takashimaya Paris Wikimedia France has its offices in the arrondissement, at 28 rue de Londres.

Economy

Groupe Danone has its head office in the 17 Boulevard Haussmann building in the 9th arrondissement. Danone moved there in 2002.

BNP Paribas BNP Paribas is a French international banking group, founded in 2000 from the merger between Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP, "National Bank of Paris") and Paribas, formerly known as the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas. The full name of the grou ...

has its head office in the arrondissement.

Crédit Industriel et Commercial The Crédit Industriel et Commercial (CIC, "Industrial and Commercial Credit Company") is a bank and financial services group in France, founded in 1859. It has been majority owned by Crédit Mutuel, one of the country's top five banking groups, s ...

Kroll Inc. Kroll is an American corporate investigation and risk consulting firm established in 1972 and based in New York City. In 2018, Kroll was acquired by Duff & Phelps. In 2021, Duff & Phelps decided to rebrand itself as Kroll, a process it comple ...

also has an office in this arrondissement.

DotEmu Dotemu SAS (originally DotEmu SAS) is a French video game developer and publisher based in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, founded in 2007 by Xavier Liard and Romain Tisserand. History Dotemu was founded by Xavier Liard and Romain Tisseran ...

has its head office in the 9th arrondissement. Gameloft has its registered office and head office in the 9th arrondissement. It is on the fifth floor of 14 rue Auber. Until June 1995, the head office of Société Générale was in this arrondissement. On that month the head office moved to the

Société Générale Towers Lactalis is a French multinational dairy products corporation, owned by the Besnier family and based in Laval, Mayenne, France. The company's former name was Besnier SA. Lactalis is the largest dairy products group in the world, and is the se ...

. The former head office remains as the company's registered office. Google Paris has its offices in the arrondissement.Google locations
" Google. Retrieved on May 25, 2016. "8 Rue de Londres 75009 Paris France"

Demographics

The peak population of the 9th arrondissement occurred in 1901, when it had 124,011 inhabitants. Since then, the arrondissement has widely attracted business activity. As a result, the population was in 1999 only 55,838 inhabitants, while it held 111,939 jobs.

Geography

Main streets and squares

Places of interest

Economy

Demographics

Historical population

Immigration

References

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