The boulevard de Magenta is located in the

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and Tenth arrondissements of

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. It begins at

place de la République The Place de la République (known as the Place du Château d'Eau until 1879) is a square in Paris, located on the border between the 3rd, 10th and 11th arrondissements. The square has an area of .Warner, p. 250 Named after the First, Second a ...

and 1,

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, and ends at 1,

boulevard de Rochechouart The Boulevard Marguerite-de-Rochechouart is a street in Paris, France, situated at the foot of Montmartre and to its south. Like the neighbouring street, it is named after Marguerite de Rochechouart de Montpipeau (1665–1727), abbess of Montmar ...

and 53,

boulevard de la Chapelle The boulevard de la Chapelle marks the border between the 10e arrondissement and the 18e arrondissement of Paris. It corresponds in part to the mur des Fermiers généraux, which, until 1860, marked the border between the communes of Paris and ...

France Paris Immeuble boulevard de Magenta

Etymology

It is named after the

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, a battle fought on 4 June 1859 near Magenta in

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. It was a victory by the

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ais of the

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and by the French armée d'Italie under general Patrice de MacMahon and

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over the

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under Guylay.

History

The creation of the boulevard de Magenta was part of the Hausmannian transformation of Paris. It was completed in 1855 between rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin and the

(the boulevard here in fact follows the route of the old rue du Nord which formed a part of an 1827 subdivision) and in 1859 between

and rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin.

Stations

Métro

* République * Jacques-Bonsergent * Barbès - Rochechouart

RER station

The RER station Magenta is located to the east of the gare du Nord and named after this boulevard, even if it is not truly under it. It is served by RER line E.

Monuments

*n° 3 : Here lived

Jacques Bonsergent Jacques Bonsergent was a French engineer who was executed by firing squad on 23 December 1940. Bonsergent's execution has been described as the first execution of a French civilian in the German occupation of France in World War II. He was tra ...

, the first Parisian to be shot by the Nazis during the German occupation of France, on 23 December 1940. *n° 24 : Site of the ''restaurant Véry'', where the anarchist Ravachol was arrested on 30 March 1892. In revenge, the anarchists exploded a bomb here on the morning of 25 April that year. *n° 68 : Église Saint-Laurent, built between 1863 and 1867. *n° 85 bis : Marché Saint-Quentin installed here in 1866. *n° 110 : Here lived the painter Georges Seurat. *n° 170 : The Le Louxor cinema (façades and ceilings inscribed as a

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), an Egyptian looking monument built by architect Henri-André Zipcy in 1921.

References

Sources

*Jacques Hillairet, ''Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris'', Minuit, Paris, 1963 ()

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Boulevard De Magenta Magenta 9th arrondissement of Paris 10th arrondissement of Paris