
The Boulevard Barbès is a
boulevard
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Boulevards were originally circumferential roads following the line of former city walls.
In American usage, boulevards may b ...
in the
18th arrondissement of Paris
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The arrondis ...
. It is named after French politician
Armand Barbès
Armand Barbès (18 September 1809 – 26 June 1870) was a French Republican revolutionary and an opponent of the July monarchy (1830–1848). He is remembered as a man whose life centers on two days:
* ''12 May 1839'', the day of the uprisin ...
. It was built in 1867 during
Haussmann's renovation of Paris
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. It starts at the
boulevard de la Chapelle and ends at the . It is 835 metres long and 35 metres wide.
Notable buildings

*Nos. 11, 13 & 15: the buildings of the former Grands Magasins Dufayel. In 1856, Jacques François Crespin opened the « Palais de la Nouveauté » on a section of the old rue des Poissonniers. Commerce extended on the boulevard and became in 1888 the Grands Magasins Dufayel. After a series of extensions they occupied the whole rectangle between the boulevard and the rue Christiani, the rue de Sofia and the rue de Clignancourt. The two domes at the corner of the rue Christiani and the rue de Sofia were constructed in 1910. The Grands Magasins closed in 1930.
*No. 90: the church of Saint-Paul de Montmartre is a Lutheran church, opened in 1897. It was the work of Adolphe Augustin Rey.
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In popular culture
*''L'automne à Barbès Rochechouart'', a song by Jean-Claude Vannier
*'' Get Low'', a song by Dillon Francis
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and DJ Snake
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*'' La Zoubida'', a song by Lagaf'
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* Barbès, an album by Rachid Taha
*''B.E.Z.B.A.R.'', a song by Scred Connexion
*''Viens faire un tour à Barbès'', a song by Scred Connexion's Ahmed Koma with DJ Maze and Cheb Tarik
*''Thé à la menthe'', a song by La Caution
* Historias de un arrabal parisino, a semi-autobiographical novel by Vicente Ulive-Schnell
*''Barbès'', a song by Fédération Française de Fonck (FFF)
*, a Parisan-based band influenced by Gnawa
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and other popular music of the North Africans who immigrated settled in the Barbès neighborhood in the second half of the 20th century.
See also
Barbès – Rochechouart (Paris Métro) Barbes or Barbès or ''variation'' may refer to:
Barbes
*A festival in Latvian mythology
Barbeş
*''Barbeş'', a village in Greece merged into the town of Vergina
Barbès
;People
* Armand Barbès, French Republican revolutionary
* Charles-Noël ...
station, and neighborhood
References
*Jacques Hillairet, ''Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris'', Minuit, Paris, 1963 ()
18th arrondissement of Paris
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