Avenue De Malakoff

The Avenue de Malakoff is a street in the

16th arrondissement of Paris The 16th arrondissement of Paris (''XVIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as ''seizième''. The arrondissement includes part of the Arc de T ...

. It was given its present name in 1854, the year in which French troops captured the Malakhov Tower during the

Crimean War The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included the de ...

, leading to the subsequent capture of nearby

Sevastopol Sevastopol (; uk, Севасто́поль, Sevastópolʹ, ; gkm, Σεβαστούπολις, Sevastoúpolis, ; crh, Акъя́р, Aqyár, ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea, and a major port on the Black Sea ...

the following year. At long and wide, it begins at the

avenue Foch Avenue Foch () is an avenue in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France, named after World War I Marshal Ferdinand Foch in 1929. It is one of the most prestigious streets in Paris, and one of the most expensive addresses in the world, home to ...

and ends at a junction with

boulevard de l'Amiral-Bruix The Boulevard de l'Amiral-Bruix is a boulevard in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is one of the Boulevards of the Marshals that circle the outer parts of the city. Location The Boulevard de l'Amiral-Bruix starts at the avenue de Mal ...

and the

avenue de la Grande-Armée Avenue or Avenues may refer to: Roads * Avenue (landscape), traditionally a straight path or road with a line of trees, in the shifted sense a tree line itself, or some of boulevards (also without trees) * Avenue Road, Bangalore * Avenue Road, L ...

. It formerly began at

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, but in 1936 the section between

and

was renamed avenue Raymond-Poincaré. In the street was the

Théâtre Malakoff The Théâtre Malakoff was a theatre venue now disestablished, formerly located at 56 bis Avenue de Malakoff (today Avenue Raymond-Poincaré) in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. On 22 December 1912, Aurélien Lugné-Poe premiered there the play ' ...

, little theatrical venue at the beginning of the 20th century. {{DEFAULTSORT:Avenue De Malakoff 16th arrondissement of Paris