The Avenue Kléber () is an avenue in the
16th arrondissement of
Paris
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, France, one of the twelve avenues that converge on the
Place Charles de Gaulle. It was named after
Jean Baptiste Kléber, a French general during the
French Revolutionary Wars
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. Before 1879, it was called the Avenue du Roi-de-Rome, in memory of
Napoleon II
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.
The avenue is "lined with grand examples of the ceremonial, yet never austere, buildings favored by
Haussmann."
Of note are the Icelandic and
Peruvian
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embassies (no. 8 and no. 50, respectively), the
Hôtel Raphael at no. 17, and
The Peninsula Paris hotel at no. 19.
French composer
Henri Büsser lived at no. 71.
Jennie Jerome, Lady Randolph Churchill, lived at no. 34 shortly after the death of her husband.
References
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Kleber
Napoleon II