Boulevard Barbès

The Boulevard Barbès is a boulevard in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. It is named after French politician Armand Barbès. It was built in 1867 during Haussmann's renovation of Paris. It starts at the boulevard de la Chapelle and ends at the rue Ordener. It is 835 metres long and 35 metres wide.

The Boulevard Barbès

Notable buildings

The Boulevard Barbès, c. 1900
  • Nos. 11, 13 & 15: the buildings of the former Grands Magasins Dufayel. In 1856, Jacques François Crespin opened the « Palais de la Nouveauté » on a section of the old rue des Poissonniers. Commerce extended on the boulevard and became in 1888 the Grands Magasins Dufayel. After a series of extensions they occupied the whole rectangle between the boulevard and the rue Christiani, the rue de Sofia and the rue de Clignancourt. The two domes at the corner of the rue Christiani and the rue de Sofia were constructed in 1910.[1] The Grands Magasins closed in 1930.
  • No. 90: the church of Saint-Paul de Montmartre is a Lutheran church, opened in 1897. It was the work of Adolphe Augustin Rey.[2]
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References

  1. Article on the Grands magasins Dufayel in Structurae
  2. Compte-rendu de la séance plénière de la Commission du Vieux Paris du 1er mars 2011; online version
  • Jacques Hillairet, Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris, Minuit, Paris, 1963 (ISBN 2-7073-1054-9)


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