The Porte de Vincennes () is one of the city gates of Paris (France) situated in the Bel Air neighborhood of the
12th arrondissement.
Location
The Porte de Vincennes is located where the northeast corner of the 12th arrondissement meets the southeast corner of the
20th arrondissement of Paris
The 20th arrondissement of Paris (known in French as the ''XXe arrondissement de Paris'' or simply as "''le vingtième''") is the last of the consecutively numbered arrondissements of the capital city of France. Also known as Ménilmontant () a ...
. The site is, more or less, delimited in the west by the Rue des Pyrénées and the Avenue du Docteur-Arnold-Netter; on the east, it is abutted by the Boulevard Davout and the Boulevard Soult. The road that actually passes through the 'porte' is the Cours de Vincennes, a major road that separates the two arrondissements.
The Porte de Vincennes is one of the principal breaches in the eastern section of the
Thiers wall. It permits access to the neighboring suburbs of
Saint-Mandé
Saint-Mandé () is a high-end commune of the Val-de-Marne department in Île-de-France in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. It is one of the smallest communes of the Île-de-France by land area, but ...
and
Vincennes
Vincennes (, ) is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. It is next to but does not include the Château de Vincennes and Bois de Vincennes, which are attache ...
.
The neighborhood
The Porte de Vincennes is the site of one of the largest outdoor markets in Paris, a market which is held on Wednesday mornings and Saturday mornings along the Cours de Vincennes.
Two of the most important
lycée
In France, secondary education is in two stages:
* ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 15.
* ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for children between ...
s (high schools or preparatory schools) in the east of Paris are here. They are called the Lycée Hélène-Boucher and the Lycée Maurice-Ravel.
Also nearby is the Saint Gabriel church constructed during the 1920s and run, ever since, by the fathers of the
Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
The Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary () abbreviated SS.CC., is a Roman Catholic clerical religious congregation of Pontifical Right for men priests and brothers. The congregation is also known as the Picpus because their firs ...
.
In popular culture
The Porte de Vincennes is the place where the character, Valmont, dies in the
epistolary novel
An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of letters. The term is often extended to cover novels that intersperse documents of other kinds with the letters, most commonly diary entries and newspaper clippings, and sometimes considered ...
, ''
Les Liaisons dangereuses'' ('Dangerous Liaisons') by
Choderlos de Laclos
Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos (; 18 October 1741 – 5 September 1803) was a French novelist, official, Freemason and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel ''Les Liaisons dangereuses'' (''Dangerous Liaisons'') ...
. He is invited there by his adversary, Danceny, for a duel.
Transportation
Since it is at the crossroads of the Cours de Vincennes and the boulevards of the marshals, with direct access to the
Boulevard Périphérique, the principal beltway encircling Paris, and, since it is the origin of National Route 34 (RN 34), the Porte de Vincennes is in the center of an area of high-density automobile traffic.
As for public transportation, this place is served by Line 1 of the Paris metro at its ''
Porte de Vincennes
The Porte de Vincennes () is one of the city gates of Paris (France) situated in the Bel Air neighborhood of the 12th arrondissement.
Location
The Porte de Vincennes is located where the northeast corner of the 12th arrondissement meets the ...
'' station, as well as several RATP bus lines. Here also is the terminus of Line 3 of the Île-de-France tramway system, which serves the eastern suburbs and connecting service for the
Porte de la Chapelle.
See also
*
Porte de Vincennes siege
On 9 January 2015, Amedy Coulibaly, armed with a submachine gun, an assault rifle, and two Tokarev pistols, entered and attacked a Hypercacher kosher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes in Paris, France. There, Coulibaly murdered four Jewish h ...
References
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Buildings and structures in the 12th arrondissement of Paris
Buildings and structures in the 20th arrondissement of Paris