Rue d'Alésia is a major street in the south of
Paris
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, which runs along the entire east-west length of the
14th arrondissement. It is one of the few streets in Paris named after a
French
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defeat, or more precisely, a
Gallic defeat: the
Battle of Alesia
The Battle of Alesia or Siege of Alesia (September 52 BC) was a military engagement in the Gallic Wars around the Gallic ''oppidum'' (fortified settlement) of Alesia in modern France, a major centre of the Mandubii tribe. It was fought by ...
. Lined with acacia trees, the street extends to the east as
Rue de Tolbiac into the
13th arrondissement, and to the west as
Rue de Vouillé into the
15th arrondissement
15 (fifteen) is the natural number following 14 and preceding 16.
Mathematics
15 is:
* A composite number, and the sixth semiprime; its proper divisors being , and .
* A deficient number, a smooth number, a lucky number, a pernicious num ...
. It intersects
Avenue du Général Leclerc at the
Place Victor et Hélène Basch (or simply Alésia), the location of the
Église Saint Pierre de Montrouge, as well as of the
Alésia Métro station.
Alesia, Rue de
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