The Chaussée de l’Étang is a street in the city of

Saint-Mandé Saint-Mandé (; named for Saint Maudez) is a Communes of France, commune in the Val-de-Marne Departments of France, department in Île-de-France, in the high-end eastern inner suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre zero, cent ...

in the

Val-de-Marne Val-de-Marne (, "Vale of the Marne") is a department of France located in the Île-de-France region. Named after the river Marne, it is situated in the Grand Paris metropolis to the southeast of the City of Paris. In 2019, Val-de-Marne had a ...

and, since 1992, part of the

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, France (more precisely the "Bel-Air" southern neighbourhood). The buildings are located on the even numbers side, under the administration of the city of Saint-Mandé. The other side being the

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, attached to the 12th arrondissement, administrated by the City of Paris.

History

The Chaussée de l'Étang is an historical street of the city, as it was first referred to during the construction of the

Château de Vincennes The Château de Vincennes () is a former fortress and royal residence next to the town of Vincennes, on the eastern edge of Paris, alongside the Bois de Vincennes. It was largely built between 1361 and 1369, and was a preferred residence, after ...

in the 13th century. Then, around 1275, Philippe Le Hardi (

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) removed all Saint-Mandé's inhabitants to prepare the infrastructure of the castle. Those found a new place along the lake (the

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), on the edge of the castle walls. This is the birth of the "Chiaussée de l'Estanc" (

old French Old French (, , ; ) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th

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or on the Lac de Saint-Mandé">lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...

. * The Guard House located at no. 44, built in the 16th century. * The manor house at no. 84 was built in 1912 at the request of the famous painter Henry Gaulet. * The building at no. 90bis, built by the architect Aristide Daniel in 1930, representing the Art Deco residential style. * A maternity clinic (closed in the 1970s) carried the name of the street. Today, the closest maternity clinic would be the Bégin Military Teaching Hospital, Bégin Hospital. * The City Public Library. * The Carousels of the Bois de Vincennes.

Access

The Chaussée de l'Étang is located on line 1 of the

Paris Métro The Paris Métro (, , or , ), short for Métropolitain (), is a rapid transit system serving the Paris metropolitan area in France. A symbol of the city, it is known for its density within the capital's territorial limits, uniform architectur ...

at the station Saint-Mandé (formerly Saint-Mandé Tourelle) and Bérault, and by a few

RATP The RATP Group () is a French state-owned enterprise (EPIC) that operates public transport systems primarily in Paris, France. Headquartered in Paris, it originally operated under the name (). Its logo represents the Seine's meandering path th ...

buses with lines 46, 86, 325.

References

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