The Avenue de Suffren is an avenue situated between the
7th and
15th arrondissements of Paris.
Location and access
The Avenue de Suffren has one of its extremities at quai Branly and the others at boulevard Garibaldi near place de la République-de-Panama. It is named for 18th century admiral
Suffren.
It intersects the avenues La Motte-Picquet, Lowendal, Ségur and Rue Pérignon.
Rue de Buenos-Aires, Avenue Octave-Gréard, Rue Jean-Rey, Rue du Général-Lambert, Rue Desaix, Avenue Joseph-Bouvard, Rue Jean-Pierre-Bloch, Rue Champfleury, Rue de Presles, Avenue du Général-Détrie, Rue de la Fédération, Rue Jean-Carriès, Rue Dupleix, Avenue de Champaubert, Rue du Laos, Rue de l'Abbé-Roger-Derry, Rue Mario-Nikis, Rue Chasseloup-Laubat, Rue Valentin-Haüy, Rue Bellart, Rue Rosa-Bonheur, and Rue Barthélemy have an extremity at Avenue de Suffren.
Metro station
''Ségur'' on
Paris Métro Line 10 is at the intersection of Avenue de Suffren and Rue Pérignon.
History
The avenue was opened between what is now quai Branly and avenue de Lowendal when the
Champ-de-Mars
The Champ de Mars (; en, Field of Mars) is a large public greenspace in Paris, France, located in the seventh ''arrondissement'', between the Eiffel Tower to the northwest and the École Militaire to the southeast. The park is named after the ...
was built, around 1770. In 1838, the Minister of Finances transferred authority on the avenue to the City of Paris.
In 1867, it was decided to prolongate the Avenue up to Rue Barthélémy and Boulevard de Grenelle (now Boulevard Garibaldi). The Abattoirs de Grenelle slaughterhouse had to be destroyed to allow the project to proceed.
Significant spots
* No 74 : location
[.] of the
Grande Roue de Paris
The Grande Roue de Paris was a tall Ferris wheel built in 1900 for the Exposition Universelle world exhibition at Paris. Financing the "Grande Roue de Paris" happened by the creation of the "Paris Gigantic Wheel and Varieties Company" and s ...
, built for the
Exposition universelle of 1900 and dismantled in 1937.
* No 78 :
Village suisse.
* Nos 92–94 : building designed in 1929 by architects
Jean Boucher and
Paul Delaplanche, ornated with sculptures by F.-P. Joyeux.
* No 106 : formerly a
brothel. During the
Occupation
Occupation commonly refers to:
*Occupation (human activity), or job, one's role in society, often a regular activity performed for payment
*Occupation (protest), political demonstration by holding public or symbolic spaces
*Military occupation, th ...
, it was popular among officers of the
Wehrmacht
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, and thus became target of a
bombing by a group of
Resistants
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under
Pierre Georges
Pierre Georges (21 January 1919 – 27 December 1944), better known as ''Colonel Fabien'', was one of the two members of the French Communist Party who perpetrated the first assassinations of German personnel during the Occupation of France durin ...
(later known as Colonel Fabien), along with Georges Tondelier, Gaultier and another member of the
Bataillons de la jeunesse known only as "Paul". The spot is now a modern building.
* No 120 :
Henri Michaux
Henri Michaux (; 24 May 1899 – 19 October 1984) was a Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned for his strange, highly original poetry and prose, and also for his art: the Paris Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim ...
lived there between 1968 and his death in 1984.
* No 125 : entrance of the conference centre of the
World Heritage Centre
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where general conferences of
UNESCO
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are held.
* No 145 :
Embassy of Panama in France.
* No 158 bis : birthplace of
Robert Wogensky (painter, 1919–).
* At the angle with Avenue de Ségur, the Caisse autonome nationale de sécurité des mineurs. The building was designed in 1922 by architects Davidson and René Patouillard-Demoriane.
90 avenue de Suffren, Paris 15e.jpg, 90.
École militaire, avenue de Suffren, Paris 15e 1.jpg, Façade sud de l'École militaire
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savo ...
.
Maison close - 106 avenue de Suffren - Paris.jpg, alt=Façade de la maison close du no 106, photographiée entre 1910 et 1912 par Eugène Atget., Façade de la maison close du 106, photographiée entre 1910 et 1912 par Eugène Atget.
Notes, sources and references
Bibliography
* {{Cite book , last=Hermann , first=Brigitte, title=Paris 15
e. Balades et bonnes adresses, last2=Sophie-Marguerite, publisher=Christine Bonneton éditeur, year=2010, isbn=978-2-86253-492-3, location=Paris, pages=224, language=fr.
See also
*
7e arrondissement de Paris
*
15e arrondissement de Paris
Streets in Paris
7th arrondissement of Paris
15th arrondissement of Paris